There's absolutely a new War on Terror being initiated -- it'd been lurking for awhile, but it's accelerating now for obvious reasons. This new one is aimed inward, domestically. It entails many of the same frameworks.
If the last few decades teach anything, it should be that making weighty decisions at times of high and intense emotions, closely following an event that unifies most everyone to the point that any deviations or questioning are treated like treason or heresy, is extremely unwise.
Amazing - yesterday I wrote: the same tactic used against critics of the first War on Terror would be used for the new one: demonizing those who question its excesses as "pro-terrorist."
Today, up pops neocon @davidfrum to reprise his role, this time as a liberal thought leader
Liberals who are behind the Biden/Harris plan to initiate this new War on Terror, this time with a primary domestic focus, won't need to study what neocons did with the first War on Terror to learn those old tactics against critics. Neocons are their full allies in all of this.
A key ally for the Dems in this domestic War on Terror will be the same media outlets who have acted as their spokespeople since 2016. CNN employs a former conservative, @oliverdarcy, whose main function in life is to demand censorship on behalf of Dems:
Most of these pro-Dem media outlets employ people whose principal job is do demand censorship of Democrats' adversaries. When FB yesterday announced the Trump ban, Darcy immediately popped up to complain it wasn't broad enough, that we need mass banning on those on the Right:
I spent the first decade of my journalism career devoted to exposing and denouncing the excesses of the first War on Terror, and I see exactly the same tactics forming:
If you question or are concerned about these new powers, you'll be branded as sympathetic to the terrorists.
As I said, one could see this new domestic War on Terror forming long before the events at the Capitol. Someone just posted this clip where I discussed it with @joerogan before the election, in Oct. Lots of big institutions with an interest in doing this:
In case any of you doubt there is a new War on Terror underway: here's a former CIA operative and Pentagon official now a member of Congress (a Democrat, needless to say), explicitly saying (on MSNBC, of course) that the new War on Terror is domestic:
UK Court hands Assange a partial victory in the Biden DOJ's attempt to extradite him.
US must provide explicit assurances that Assange 1) can raise a 1st Am defense, 2) will have the same rights as US citizens and 3) will never face the death penalty.
Biden WH doesn't want the sideshow of a trial; daily protests; discovery into CIA; Assange on the stand; Biden as the first-ever president to imprison a publisher.
They want to kill Assange through conviction-free imprisonment.
How dare the US President weigh in on a war he has caused American citizens to finance, arm and support!
Look at the mentality of these Israel fanatics: the duty of American citizens is not only to finance Israel's military and wars, but also never question what Israel does:
The 2.2 million Gazans have lived in a literal, not a metaphorical, prison for 2 decades.
In 2002, Israel destroyed its airport. Israel kills them if they try to leave by sea. The borders are shut - by Israel and the US-supported Egyptian dictator.
Who would tolerate this?
Gazan children are dying of starvation: the single worst and most painful way to die. There is no doubt about this.
Mass famine is inevitable. Blaming Hamas - as if they now govern Gaza - is an insult to your intelligence.
Israel explicitly vowed to block food from entering.
Imagine how dumb Victoria Nuland thinks everyone is that she feels comfortable saying with a straight face: "We will do what we have always done, which is defend democracy & freedom around the world..."
As fraudulent as the Iraq War was, more lies were told in Feb. 2022.
Through 2022, these people assured us that the Russian economy was near collapse, the ruble would be dust, Russia was on the brink of running out of bullets, the world united against them.
It's hard to overstate how much the Russian economy is thriving:
As just one example: US/EU sanctions have been such a gigantic failure that even Morning Joe this week devoted 6 straight minutes -- purely using economic data -- to lamenting how vibrant Russia's economy is and how much stronger they are militarily: