Comments by "Travis Cutler" (@traviscutler9912) on "The Grayzone"
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Agreed that Hamas is explicitly at fault for executing the hostages, BUT, the fact that Hamas agreed to a peace deal that was put forward by Israel and the Americans, but then completely rejected later by Netanyahu because he realized that he would go to jail for or corruption explains the entire situation. By denying a ceasefire agreement, he purposely put the hostages at risk for his own political purposes. Obviously that doesn't absolve Hamas for the direct role in their killing but the reality is if Netanyahu had actually just did what he said he would do in the first place they would ALL still be alive and that's a fact. You can split all the hairs you want but I'm sure the families of the victims would have preferred that he just did what he said he would do rather than sacrifice their lives to keep him out of prison just a little bit longer.
P.S. I've been toying with this for a long time, but can we just legalize corruption for f*** sake?!?!? Can we not just tell Netanyahu he will never pay for his crimes and that we will give him a billion dollars to f*** off?!?! Like, you won the lottery of Democratic stupidity so please just leave without causing more needless deaths.
Seriously.
I also understand how upsetting and completely wrong that is for his tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of victims, however, I also understand that we're spending tens of billions of dollars to slaughter even more innocent people on a daily basis. Just so this complete and total a**** can avoid jail a little bit longer?!?!?! The fact that we could just offer him amnesty and money to f*** off makes so much more sense?! I think we could call it the corruption rule. If a society is SO f**** stupid, that they continue to elect the same corrupt politician as a result of their complete and total inability to understand or accept obvious facts, that at a certain point, once that politician has accrued enough power to make everyone's lives dangerously unstable, we should be allowed to invoke the corruption law that says our society is clearly too stupid to fairly advocate for our members and that it's time to accept that we are too dumb to do anything other than pay off that person to just leave peacefully?!?!?
OR we can continue the needless
Slaughter of tens of thousands of people for years to come and the deaths of all the hostages just so this one man can pretend that he is doing anything other than trying to save his own f**** skin?
P.s. with that said, he doesn't get immunity anywhere other than the country where he did his crimes. Everywhere else he has to be accountable so that he has to stay where he is most hated. It's not a great system by any stretch, but I'll take anything not to see one more murdered Palestinian Child or hostages sent home in a box for that f**** a**** Netanyahu.
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I wrote this to Pod Save America.
Exactly! Why don't people understand that Ukraine placing NATO nukes on Russia's border on behalf of America is about peace?!?!
PSA are actually smart people and I can tell they know better. The reality is that the neocons run the DNC now as the Cheney's wouldn't be coming along if that wasn't the case. It's hard to believe that the party of JFK who was shot in the head by the security establishment for not supporting a hawkish worldview by the CIA is now about encircling Russia and everyone who actually understands Neocons policy appreciates the very REAL NEOCON plan to destroy Russia who sacrificed almost 30 million Russians in WW2?!?! ALSO, that America's security state's plan (CIA) is to balkanize the Russian land into smaller, less powerful individual states to extract their resources as a way for American companies to become even more insanely wealthy JUST LIKE THEY HAVE DONE FOR SEVEN DECADES to ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD!?! THIS OBVIOUS FACT, is such a disservice not only to the American people, but also the entire planet as this insane greed will eventually cost us ALL, everything.
PSA are 100% smart enough to understand that they probably don't want to spend the last 30 years of their f**** lives trapped in a bunker with Chelsea Clinton, Trump's kids and whatever hellish version of Dr. Strange Love plans they have made for them?!? Can't the billionaires just live with being multi billionaire rather than trillionaires?!?! Sadly, PSA represents the professional managerial class (PMC) and until they are no longer willing to sacrifice the working class for a slightly better apartment in service of the billionaire class and the promise that they can eventually move into the rentier class, we will move forever up the escalation ladder of class war to self destruction.
You people need to remember that Musk has zero intention of bringing you to Mars with him as his plan is to leave you with gigantic bags of useless cash as he flies to some fantasy, while you look around at the rest of us and realize that you are trapped here WITH US and we are not happy.
Don't help the working class because it's the right thing to do, do it because the billionaires are planning to throw you under the bus after they've destroyed everything and if we know you helped them do it.........
The system works.
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Trump is the unfortunate blowback of 40 years Neoliberal DNC promises that has seen a massive decline in the standard of living of the overwhelming majority of Americans.
I think the most important thing is to remember, all Biden's broken 2020 campaign promises like a $15 minimum wage, public option for healthcare, not to issue any oil drilling on federal lands(Let alone the most ever), fully funded infrastructure package rather than gutting it for corporate oil lobbyists, voting rights act for George Floyd, not putting refugees in cages let alone keeping Trump's border policies, not one more mile of Trump's border wall (yup billions more), making Saudi Arabia's MBS pay for the murder of TWO American journalists, cynically cancelling student debt in a way that he knew SCOTUS would stop in a way he could cynically send people back to the polls.
Once in government the DNC crushed the rail workers movement, forcing them back to work for the audacity of asking for a single day off?! continuing to ignore the Flint water crisis, also, let's not forget the absolute f**** tragedy that is East Palestine rail chemical disaster that the people there still continue to suffer from. Also, rather than trying to deal in a humane and sensible immigration reform, Biden totally capitulated to the far right view of further militarizing the border while not getting anything for people who've been in the country for decades, resolving nothing except to move the conversation towards the anti-immigration crowd. Expanding the military industrial complexes budget with zero accountability for the fact they don't know where the money went and expanding the nuclear Arsenal while dropping all of the non nuclear prolification agreements. I can keep going on and on and on but none of this should surprise anyone. Biden has been one of the most corporate captured and Republican friendly Senators of all time, with a record that shows nothing except total complicity in selling out the American people for political & personal gain. His administration is the perfect embodiment of the DNC's worldview, campaign to the center, Rule to the Right. Reward the donor's, ensure the protection of Israel so that Netanyahu can break every single possible crime against humanity. Biden undermined any possible peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia costing hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides , which at the end of this I guarantee will be the exact same place as to where the original land agreement was.. Oh, yeah, let's not forget the only thing that he was involved in with Obama that actually was helpful, like normalization of relations with Cuba, or Iran?!? Once elected he didn't do anything on those fronts either because it was more important to him to ingratiate himself with right-wing corporate media than to spend political capital on the things he campaigned on to do the right thing that would have actually helped the people in those countries as well as the USA in terms of trade and having any, what's so f**** ever credibility on the world stage?!?! Could you imagine how much more important it would be to have Iran in the world economic system right now so that they had something to lose?!??
I get why the DNC pushed him over Bernie Sanders, clearly Biden's hubris and ignorance was easy to manipulate his foreign policy agenda in the Israeli direction unlike Obama, who was smarter than that. The fact Biden was an avowed "Zionist" was just icing on the cake! Unfortunately, Hamas 's October 7th attack totally destroyed Netanyahu's narrative that his support of Hamas as a way to destabilize Palestine as a whole would guarantee the greater security to everyone in the region was proven extremely false, now sadly those chickens have come home to roost for not only all of those slaughtered children, but the rest of us who have to deal with the policy failures of a demented old man & The DNC political establishment that prioritized its own personal gains, profit and exploitation of the region over the geopolitical goals of the states for the next hundred years.
I bring all this up because of his first choice as president, he picked Kamala Harris as his running mate. My belief is that it was because she was a failure running for president and he knew that he was such a weak candidate that he couldn't withstand any kind of political talent from anyone else, whatsoever and she certainly fulfilled that goal. Also, the DNC knew that she was such a weak candidate as well, that she would never, under any circumstances talk back or have any kind of spine or political beliefs whatsoever that could complicate their commitment to the donor class. More importantly, Kamala would n't have any shame whatsoever because she believes in nothing at all. The DNC had assembled the perfect team of ambition without ideology, an ability to change opinion on fundamental issues without a hint of shame and most importantly of all, a complete and total disregard for everyone except for themselves.
Obviously, the DNC knew that this would be extremely unpalatable to the American people, but Trump is the gift that keeps on giving! His total disregard for the norms which give the false pretense that Washington DC isn't just a total grift to extract $ from the working class while giving it to the 1% and ensuring that they never, under any circumstance, ever, pay any consequences for their incompetence, corruption and or complete and total criminality in terms of hundreds, if not millions of people's lives. Unfortunately, Trump's grotesque incompetence, paled in comparison to the DNC's choice to TWICE cheat the American people out of their ACTUAL legitimate choice Bernie Sanders & forced literally the worst neoliberalism corporate HACK of ALL TIME Corporate Joe in a desperate attempt to use Trump's incompetence to hide their total contempt for the working classes rejection of the Neoliberal agenda.
Trump is the inevitable blowback to 40 years of neoliberalism brought to you by the DNC and they're failure to deliver the basics. If the party of "democracy" only manages to ever deliver a declining living standard and identity politics instead of the material well being of Americans it's no wonder that they have rejected those obviously empty promises. Sadly, at some point voter will try the strong man and hope that maybe he delivers when "their people have sold them out consistently for 40 years". Trump won't of course but that's the consequence we all have to suffer for the greed hubris of the Democratic party. WORST of ALL the DNC DID THIS ON PURPOSE, If they won then they're neoliberal agenda would be confirmed and celebrated while the billionaire donor class collected their Pound of flesh. However, if they lost then Trump would also reward the billionaire donors with not only taxes but reduced regulation and best of all a way, to drive fear into the hearts of all workers that if they don't support the neoliberal agenda of the Democrats, they will be thrown to the Neoconservative GOP wolves!!!
The system works.
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GZ is arguably one of, if not the most important independent research journalists working today. I mean, the fact that you guys called out the bogus Israeli systemic rape allegations of oct 7th was incredibly impressive as you knew the entire weight of the establishment would come down upon you. You goddamn know every person you've ever been involved with, every receipt you've ever made, tax form and every fart in an elevator that you've ever let slip out is being scrutinized under a microscope to discredit you. Just like I say to all my favorite journalists who actually expose all of the various establishment crimes, we're used to
Be extremely careful and if you do get increased Viewership $, it's incredibly important to use that money towards additional security and anything you can do to be as careful as possible as these mass murderers are not afraid to employ violence or encourage "lone wolves" to solve their problems. I just bought the low-level membership, wish I could do more but I'm super in debt and living in the most expensive city in Canada doesn't help but the work you guys are putting out is too important not to support. I'm curious what you guys think of drop site by Ryan Grimm. I know he's a DNC inside man, but I can't help but feel he's an honest arbitrator of at least basic facts and due to his ability to walk both sides of the line (establishment/ establishment center Left), he's able to get out more information to a larger audience in a more credible manner than most other journalists who are labeled immediately as Russian disinformation or the usual propaganda. In other words, do you feel he's credibly adding to real investigative journalism or just soft pedaling more DNC talking points by drawing attention to other events? I have limited dollars and so I've canceled all of my subscriptions to corporate media, so I currently subscribe to you, Bad Faith podcast, Chris hedges, Glen Greenwald (Yes he does a lot of questionable supportive stuff for Trump but I think that's necessary for him to pierce the conservative bubble with actual information and unfortunately you got to give a little bit of sugar for that medicine to go down LOL )and I was doing it for Katie Helper since she got fired from Rising, but as much as I think she's a great person, I find her a little too redundant for my taste and a little more for a normie prospective of leftist politics, which I can get from a lot of other places (*except for her interviews which are great!) like bad faith without a critique of what D list celeberties in Hollywood support the genocide in Gaza (Katie, I love you if you end up reading this!! But I can't listen to that opening you have of Biden anymore. It's killing me. And I just don't care about any of the vibes reporting on any of this. I think it's important to bridge that gap for people other than myself but I just don't find it compelling and it just doesn't add to what I deem as relevant information with my limited time and money.)
No worries if nobody can get back to me on this, I would just like to know what your opinion which I value very much is a good use of my resources to support this and such a unbelievably crucial time.
Once again thank you for all of your amazing work and how you 've taken one for the team!!
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I think it's an important time to remember the history of the most influential, successful, anti-Imperial, anti-capitalist, pro-worker organization ever in America, the Black Panthers, why they were formed and specifically what happened to them.
First, they formed as a result of the police in America being so corrupt and racist that they could indiscriminately beat and murder black people pretty much anywhere, whatsoever, that it necessitated some sort of organized political and or security structure to fight back, which they did as a group with a great aesthetic to boot! They armed themselves legally which coincidentally prompted Governor Ronald Reagan to help implement the first gun control laws in America (If you want gun control, arm, every black man in America). They organized themselves, while also reaching out to the broader community to establish protection from not only the police but also general crime that the police refused to address. They then implemented various community programs such as education, medical programs, business, food programs for everyone in their community.
It did not go unnoticed, as protecting your people from state violence can not under ANY circumstances be tolerated.
"In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party "without question, represents the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." And with that declaration he used United States federal law enforcement to wage war on the group. "
NPR
The obvious result was that everyone from the Black Panthers was either murdered, imprisoned for life or turned into an informant to destroy not only the group BUT more importantly the credibility of the movement broadly. So, just to be clear on the stakes of any endeavor that's challenging power at this level; is if you ever organize anything that's actually successful enough to genuinely threaten The Establishment's iron grip on absolutely everything, whatsoever, lest the bad apple of community solidarity ruins the batch of corporate Oligarchy. You should expexct swiftly and without remorse the same results, if not considerably worse, given the fact that they are burning hospital ridden children alive. Those are the stakes you're playing for and unless you are very clear about that, you not only do a disservice to the mission but also endanger people who aren't prepared for what's coming next and because they don't understand what's at stake, they may further undermine the group as a whole through no fault of their own.
Sadly, the general public believes that there is such a thing as the rule of law, human rights, a legal framework for accountability on government's power that could at least slightly constrain the worst elements of a rogue security establishment's most depraved acts of illegal violence..............they are incorrect and allowing their ignorance to continue turns them into victims of a war they never signed up for.
The system works and it won't stop working until everyone's dead and they own everything. Unfortunately, that's just how it is and it's time we start to address it as such.
Unfortunately, class war is still a War (regardless, personally, I am still a conscious objector to any forms of violence as it only begets more violence). Therefore, it has casualties, collateral damage and massive losses to the side that is losing which is the Left to be clear. Without the acknowledgment of those odds and consequences, you cannot begin to build a credible plan to fight or win let alone survive.
It may be that some people are willing to sacrifice their freedom for decades, their wellbeing or even their lives for the greater good but groups like the CIA aren't as respectful as the Mafia and will 110% involve friends, family, children, lying & fabricating evidence as they have no limits on ANYTHING WHATSOEVER AND ANYONE STARTING TO CHALLENGE THEM MUST BE TOLD WHAT THEY ACTUALLY FACE.
The system works.
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The fact that the Israelis can't even pretend not to collectively punish the Palestinians (against ALL human Rights law. Ever )for the stated goals of crushing HAMAS (& not just the terrorists in Hamas, but the people as well in Gaza). Netanyahu's goal of not just eliminating Hamas BUT ALSO the, Moderates, even PEACE Negotiators (IDF assassinated the hostage negotiator for Hamas for the Israeli hostages, if that tells you anything!?!) and the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and or ALL of the Muslim worlds security apparatus that Israeli's far right secret security service (Israel's CIA, the Mossad, that not only backs the full ethnic cleansing of both Gaza,the west bank and as much as the USA will allow them to murder their way to expropriation of Muslim lands.
The reality is that both Gaza and the west bank are not only obviously as both open targets for the IDF, but more importantly, are open targets for the WESTERN security establishment and or more broadly, along with ANY and all people not armed with nuclear weapons to fight back against the west ARE CONSIDERED EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SO ARE IMMEDIATELY EXPENDABLE.These Muslim extremists have been informed that not only will they and all of their people will be merciously slaughtered no matter what agreements they make as they've all have been broken to them so far to accommodate Israel's slaughter campaign without exception.
So this lets the entire region understand. No matter what they do, they're most likely going to die as a result of any deals made with a Western government?!?!? Recently in Iran there was a 4.5 Richter scale earthquake, coincidentally damn same Richter scale earthquake measurement is 4.6 for India's 1998 underground nuclear weapons experiment had something extremely similar. All of this, so that the Israelis can merciously slaughter tens of thousands of innocent Muslim women and children in Gaza & Lebanon or Iran?!? !?!
What the absolute f*** is going on. Seriously f***, seriously?!?!.
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Hey boys!?!?
I think it's high time that we're actually honest about why the left sells out. The reality is that if you call out The Deep State and security establishment, at the minimum they will ignore any legitimate threats against your life and realistically speaking, they will have you JFK'd or MLK'd if you don't tow the party line and legitimately threaten the power structure of the elite. So let's stop pretending that going up against them is just a matter of being unpopular with media. The reality is anyone who goes up against these people and what they represent has every reason to believe that they will be, or a loved one, murdered by either our government or someone our government ignores so that they can murder someone they don't support.
Until we recognize and acknowledge this glaring fact. We will not be able to bring in the type of people who are willing to face these se very real threats. Also, without acknowledging the truth of this matter, you will also not be able to prepare with security and the structures of money that supports real defense against malissa and murderous regime that will do anything to crush descent.
Could you imagine, if the movement had actually put in a massive amount of money to protect JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm x, Harvey Milk, and on and on and on? And on not to mention all of the developing world leaders who were mercile killed by the security establishment. The reality is that they were killed for a specific purpose and that purpose continues to this very day. Until we acknowledge the very real threat that AOC carries each and every day while we judge her for not carrying out our expectations yet we don't protect her in any meaningful way or anyone else in that very vulnerable position.
The system works. All you need to know that it's working is to look at the body count...........
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Agreed that Hamas is explicitly at fault for executing the hostages, BUT, the fact that Hamas agreed to a peace deal that was put forward by Israel and the Americans, but then completely rejected later by Netanyahu because he realized that he would go to jail for or corruption explains the entire situation. By denying a ceasefire agreement, he purposely put the hostages at risk for his own political purposes. Obviously that doesn't absolve Hamas for the direct role in their killing but the reality is if Netanyahu had actually just did what he said he would do in the first place they would ALL still be alive and that's a fact. You can split all the hairs you want but I'm sure the families of the victims would have preferred that he just did what he said he would do rather than sacrifice their lives to keep him out of prison just a little bit longer.
P.S. I've been toying with this for a long time, but can we just legalize corruption for f*** sake?!?!? Can we not just tell Netanyahu he will never pay for his crimes and that we will give him a billion dollars to f*** off?!?! Like, you won the lottery of Democratic stupidity so please just leave without causing more needless deaths.
Seriously.
I also understand how upsetting and completely wrong that is for his tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of victims, however, I also understand that we're spending tens of billions of dollars to slaughter even more innocent people on a daily basis. Just so this complete and total a**** can avoid jail a little bit longer?!?!?! The fact that we could just offer him amnesty and money to f*** off makes so much more sense?! I think we could call it the corruption rule. If a society is SO f**** stupid, that they continue to elect the same corrupt politician as a result of their complete and total inability to understand or accept obvious facts, that at a certain point, once that politician has accrued enough power to make everyone's lives dangerously unstable, we should be allowed to invoke the corruption law that says our society is clearly too stupid to fairly advocate for our members and that it's time to accept that we are too dumb to do anything other than pay off that person to just leave peacefully?!?!?
OR we can continue the needless
Slaughter of tens of thousands of people for years to come and the deaths of all the hostages just so this one man can pretend that he is doing anything other than trying to save his own f**** skin?
P.s. with that said, he doesn't get immunity anywhere other than the country where he did his crimes. Everywhere else he has to be accountable so that he has to stay where he is most hated. It's not a great system by any stretch, but I'll take anything not to see one more murdered Palestinian Child or hostages sent home in a box for that f**** a**** Netanyahu.
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(This argument has to be adressed head-on, immediately!!!)
VOTE 3RD PARTY! OR: WHY I'M NOT AFRAID OF TRUMP'S SECOND TERM and why I'm more afraid of being complicit in the genocide of Gaza, rather than all the horrible stuff that Trump will do BUT that the DNC will also do, however slightly less and maybe even accidentally something good........
I'm starting to think a second Trump presidency might be in everyone's best interest?!?! Seriously. If Harris is elected then everyone gets to go back to brunch and pretend that democracy is ok. A Harris presidency would reward the DNC for being corrupt, breaking all its promises to the Left, kids still in cages, refugees dying at the border, failure on climate, failure on green infrastructure, failure on voting rights, failure on a public opinion, failure on police reform, failure on $15 min wage, failure to hold Saudi Arabia accountable, failure in Gaza, continuing to promote the proxy war against Russia, etc.....
However, if Trump is re-elected everyone will remember that children are still dying in detention, democracy is under direct threat, the world is burning and at least Trump says he would try to end the war in Ukraine (obviously Trump would nuke Ukraine for a nickel but the fact he even suggested peace is better than the DNC's current pro WW3 stance).
The reality is that we can boil the climate frog slow or fast but it's going to fry either way. If the fire is stoked purposely by the actual Left it, would tell the Corporate Democrats that breaking every promise has consequences or if we are really lucky, public awareness that the duopoly won't save us and force regular people to understand that after the Palestinians it could be the place that their families are from next. Not to mention the fact, that they're also in the same boiling pot........
The system works. Let's stop supporting it.
Vote third party, knowing full well that it will more than likely elect Donald j. Trump and that you are proud of it because it's better than voting for genocide. Lastly, always remind Liberals when they say that Donald Trump will be worse. Unfortunately genocide is the WORST and we're already there. Yes, he will more than likely kill even faster, which is unbelievably horrific BUT if the clearly stated goals of Israel is to be believed, then tragically everyone in Palestine will eventually be dead regardless of the timeline. This is unacceptable on every possible level, there's no lesser of two evils when fucking genocide is concerned.
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