I actually agree #ObamaWasBetterAtEverything. when he was running an insurgent campaign against the establishment candidate hillary clinton, he pulled no punches, didn't play nice, didn't do bullshit civility politics. instead he did this and won:
here's more of obama just brutally mocking hillary clinton, calling out her hypocrisy and lies, her fakeness
remember in that debate in 2016 when bernie was asked point-blank by hillary to name one example of a vote she changed due to donations and being corrupt, and bernie didn't say anything while we were all shouting: "THE BANKRUPTCY BILL!!!". obama said it:
oh ok, but surely hillary clinton accused obama of being a sexist for saying all this, right? how did obama respond to that? did he cower in fear? did he profusely apologize and thereby accept the bullshit premise of the smear? no, here's what he did:
meanwhile some on the "left", pathetic, weak and fickle as ever, are having a discussion about how they weren't kind enough, weren't empathetic enough, have to talk more about "systems" and less about individuals. just admit you are afraid of power and want perpetual opposition
here's kautsky, known at the time as "the pope of marxism" and revered by lenin, decades before his reformist turn laying out clearly what he and many of the left later forgot: "the system exists only in persons, and I cannot attack it without attacking persons"
bernie's decision to not do this w/ hillary in 2016 and biden in 2020 was disastrous, as was corbyn's decision to not do it with may, johnson and the internal saboteurs in the labour party. there were people begging them to fight, pleading with them, but they took the "high road"
I don't consider leading your movement voluntarily to slaughter like little lambs to be "taking the high road". it's the opposite of that. it's a betrayal, it's cowardly, it's weak, it shows fear of power rather than the willingness to take it and save countless lives by doing so
and if the left and its future leaders aren't going to learn this lesson from our defeats over the past decade, something that those with power or desiring to take it from the right and center like obama and starmer know intuitively, it's going to keep being mercilessly destroyed
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Israel has decided to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to try to cause total state collapse. Unless Iran establishes deterrence in the very short term by striking both Israeli and US assets in the region and eliminating top figures in the Israeli regime, they will proceed
the US and Israel did not launch this war to try to eliminate the nuclear sites. They know they can't. They are too well-protected and dispersed and any damage can be reconstituted in the short-term. They launched it to cause total state collapse in Iran, beginning in phases. The first phase was the eliminate the top military and IRGC leaders, while also going after scientists and mass killing civilians in the process.
This would create the false impression that they are still somewhat restrained and focused on military/nuclear targets.
After taking what they expect will be a similarly constrained response from Iran, they will see that as confirmation that Iran will not adhere to its own stated red lines and is still afraid of meeting Israel at the same level of escalation.
That is their green light to proceed to the next phase, which is to target and kill top political leaders, including Khamenei.
Their hope isn't to replace the current government and state with some re-hash of the monarchist Zionist fascist through his failson, they know there is no base of support for that inside the country.
Their hope is to do another Libya and Syria: Unleash proxy forces they fund and arm together with the Gulf "Arab shield" puppet regimes and NATO-Erdogan and turn it into a spiral of death and chaos, a concocted "civil war" where Iranians are paid and armed by the CIA and Mossad to kill Iranians.
The MEK and other such proxy forces have already been trained and prepared and are ready to be activated. They will begin with car bombings and terrorist attacks mass killing civilians. "ISIS" will reappear again and do its typical job for their CIA-Mossad masters.
The US and Israel decided to launch this war since before Trump was elected, and it has the full and total support of the entire US military-intelligence-industrial complex and the media and political class, both Republicans and Democrats and it would have also happened if Kamala Harris won the election (see x.com/zei_squirrel/s…).
They see Iran and the Axis of Resistance and its alliance with Russia and China as the main obstacle to full and total Zionist US-NATO-Israeli imperial hegemony in the region and by extension the world, and they want to destroy it as it is the only one that unlike Russia and China does not have a nuclear deterrent and they want to get to it before it obtains it.
This is an existential war of survival not just for the Iranian state, but for Iran as a nation.
If this project succeeds, the country will be balkanized, ethnic divisions will be stirred by foreign actors, the CIA and Mossad and the Gulf puppets will fund and arm dozens of proxy death and rape-squads roaming their fiefdoms, tens of millions of lives will be destroyed.
Everything must be done to prevent this. Iran has the weapons to do so. It has the capacity to do so, it is only a question of will. Does it have the will to do what it takes to prevent the mass destruction of their own people and nation. I hope it does. We must all hope it does.
all of this goes back to the assassination of Nasrallah. Israel had the ability to assassinate him whenever it wanted. That is not the question. Iran can assassinate Netanyahu if it wants. Ukraine can assassinate Putin, Putin can assassinate Zelensky. Assassinations are not the problem, every state with a barely competent intelligence has the capacity to assassinate anyone.
It is a question of deterrence. The reason Israel did not assassinate Nasrallah is because, as Gallant later came out and admitted, because they were deathly afraid of the response be Hezbollah and Iran. They thought it would lead to such a significant response, not just in terms of a missile strike on Israeli territory hitting military infrastructure, but assassinations of top Israeli officials, that they did not go ahead with it.
Then slowly but surely the deterrence Iran had established was broken down. Look at the timeline:
1 April 2024 Israel attacks Iran's embassy, killing many
13 April Iran responds with Operation True Pormise 1, a symbolic pre-signaled strike. No deaths, just some limited material damage.
19 May Israel kills Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi and the foreign minister Amir-Abdollahian.
Iran responds by covering it up and going along with the lie that it was just an accident so that it could avoid having to retaliate at all. Israeli officials were openly gloating about these killings, and it's an open secret in intel circles that they were assassinated.
July 30 Israel kills top Hezbollah military official Fuad Shukr
July 31 Israel kills Hamas leader Haniyeh, and does it in Tehran itself
Iran then vowed they would retaliate, but Genocide Joe/Blinken began the fake diplomacy propaganda that Trump/Witkoff also initiated ahead of the current war, saying they would get a permanent ceasefire in Gaza as long as they didn't retaliate.
17-18 September Israel does its terrorist pager attack in Lebanon, killing and blinding many including toddlers and children
Already before this they had begun bombing Beirut, which Hezbollah and Nasrallah said was a red line.
Israel saw all this as confirmation that there would be no retaliation by Iran and Hezbollah of the same kind, meaning the direct targeting and mass killing of top Israeli officials and any human shields who they happen to be hiding amongst at the time.
This was the green light to go ahead with the assassination of Nasrallah on September 27th.
By that point, it was already too late. All of Iran and the broader Axis of Resistance's deterrence capacity had already been totally shattered. They kept saying in words: We will strike you at least as hard as you struck us, if not harder, and then they kept not following through on their own stated red lines.
Nasrallah's assassination was when the US and Israel knew that the war on Iran they had already wanted to launch all along was now ready to go in the short term, within a year.
Iran then did retaliate to all this on October 1st, Operation True Promise 2, which did actually do some significant damage although the Western media class deliberately lies about this, but it was limited to military infrastructure. It did not meet the same level of the Israeli attacks, not even close it. No top Israeli officials were eliminated. No targeted assassinations. No human shields that they were hiding amongst were taken out.
All deterrence was completely lost at this point.
Just think about it from the US-Israeli perspective: You killed Nasrallah, the main leader of the Axis of Resistance alongside Khamenei himself, and the only cost you had to bear was some material damage.
Why would they not happily take that exchange? Of course they would. They love that exchange ratio. They would take that deal any day. It's like the perfect gift to them.
And now they are coming in for the final kill, with the exact same standard they have been applying all this time, beginning with the assassination of top military and IRGC officials and scientists and any civilians who may be around them, taking hits that consist primarily of material damage which they love, that's a perfect exchange for them, and then they move to the next phase: The Supreme Leader of Iran and the Axis of Resistance itself.
The only way to stop this now is to break this cycle. And the only way this can be done is by hitting them and doing minimally the same damage to them that was done by them, and ideally going beyond that, in fact far beyond that. You have to look completely insane and unpredictable. You have to come over as totally irrational, capable of destroying the entire region if necessary. In other words, you have to make them fear you just as the genocidal Israeli death-cult and the US have done for themselves.
First: Eliminate top Israeli military and political officials. Any human shields they are hiding amongst with them. It is not a matter of being able to. Of course Iran is able to. It is a question of will.
Second: Target US and Israel military assets everywhere in the region. And not just infrastructure, not just buildings. It can't just be buildings.
Third: Close the strait of Hormuz, and begin striking oil fields in the Arab shield gulf puppet regimes.
All of this has to be done, and then the scale can be increased if deterrence has not yet been established and the war continues.
This is the only way the genocidal Israeli and US death-cults can be brought to heel, and tens of millions of lives can be saved.
BREAKING: The Israelis are now openly admitting that all the "Trump negotiations to get a deal with Iran", "Trump's turn on Netanyahu", "Trump told Israel to not attack Iran" was deliberate false propaganda to lull Iran into a false sense of security, exactly as I said it was. This is a US-Israeli war on Iran
anyone still repeating the deliberate false propaganda that "Netanyahu defied Trump", "Trump wants peace but Israel is dragging him to war", is a propagandist liar who is laundering and prolonging the war by pacifying the MAGA base from criticizing Trump:
all of this was transparently obvious to anyone who understands Zionism and how it operates. I knew it was false propaganda, but all the "experts" from across the ideological spectrum helped launder it by lending it credence. Never listen to them again
I'm sorry but this is a bullshit line and people not to stop repeating this lie. Netanyahu did not "defy Trump", he is not "pulling the US into a war", everything Israel does is done with full and total US backing and support. There is no distance between them at all. Trump supports all this fully
as I said when all the "experts" were helping launder the lie that Trump was actually genuinely trying to get a deal (see x.com/zei_squirrel/s…) as they were using that to buy time to prepare for the war and establish the element of surprise, the whole "this is just Israel, not the US" line is a key part of the propaganda laundering to try to pretend like this is not a US-Israeli war but just some "lone totally independent action by Israel" so as to try to avoid being targeted in the retaliation.
It also helps launder the lie that Trump is somehow still the "real peace candidate" who is just being undermined and forced into things by "the deep state" and Netanyahu.
It's just pure propaganda and no one should be repeating it.
Tucker Carlson and all the other MAGA media class hacks will use this lie that "Netanyahu defied Trump" to keep supporting him as he has launched this war on Iran, when the only way to stop it is by CALLING HIM OUT ON IT AND WITHDRAW SUPPORT FROM HIM:
Steve Witkoff just accepted an award from the guy who fabricated the 40 beheaded babies in ovens genocidal atrocity propaganda hoax that even Western and Israeli media alongside the UN and others have debunked. Witkoff is a sub-human Zionist cunt of the lowest kind, pure vermin
at the event where Steve Witkoff the genocidal Zionist sub-human vermin accepted the award from his fellow vermin Eli Beer, he also said he wished his mother was there because the former head of the Mossad applauded him when he said they will bomb Iran for his precious Israel
never forget the scum who laundered Steve Witkoff as some humane, honest, neutral, objective peacemaker who will bring Israel to heel, who is America first, who is a true real patriot. He is Israel first. He is Zionist first. He is the bringer of death:
if the Israeli rape-army is going to try to force Greta Thunberg and the other hostages they kidnapped in their illegal raid on the Madleen freedom flotilla to watch their doctored genocidal atrocity propaganda hoax video, then Hamas should force the Israeli rape-soldier prisoners to watch the clips of all the babies, children, girls, boys, women and men their fellow genocidal Zionist rape-soldiers behead, burn alive, tear apart, rape and murder on a daily basis
just put all the clips of the mass beheadings and burning alive and killings of Palestinian babies, children, girls, women and men that come out every day in front of them and force them to watch it with a gun to their head. I mean that's the Israeli standard, so let's apply it
btw of course the entire Western media class, BBC, Guardian, AP, Reuters, Washington Post, they're all running with that line. OMG THATS SO EPIC AND CLEVER, OMG, THEYRE GOING TO FORCE GRETA THUNBERG AND THE OTHER HOSTAGES THEY KIDNAPPED TO WATCH THEIR ATROCITY PROPAGANDA HOAX VIDEO.
But when you apply that standard to the Israeli rape-soldier prisoners, they break down and start hysterically crying, OMG NO THATS PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL TORTURE, OMG NO, NO THATS A WAR CRIME, OMG NO.
They're all depraved genocidal Zionist scum of the lowest kind.
Bernie Sanders and his wife went to Ireland recently and threw out anti-genocide protesters from their event because they asked him to accept what Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the UN and every major human rights org have said: That it's an Israeli genocide, not "Netanyahu's war"
Bernie Sanders continues to angrily mock and smear those who recognize the genocide. In interviews he says "what, so now 8 people get killed and that's a genocide?!?" But he immediately accepted that Russia and China are doing genocide. He's a Zionist liar and genocide denier
to be absolutely clear: It is inconceivable that Bernie Sanders and his wife would dare deny a genocide recognized by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the UN in any other context. They would not dare. They only do it for their precious Israel.