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2020-06-07 Home Front: Politix

The Establishment Only Dislikes Trump Because He Puts An Ugly Face On The Empire

[Medium.com] Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and it was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of actual substance as you’d expect from a president who spent eight years stagnating the progressive movement with empty hope narrative while advancing the same murderous oppressive agendas as his predecessors.

The former president talked about changes that need to be made as though he wasn’t the most powerful politician in America for two full terms, praised the nation’s police officers saying "the vast majority" of them protect and serve the people, and encouraged them to continue making empty gestures of solidarity with the protesters to calm them down.

"I want to acknowledge the folks in law enforcement that share the goals of re-imagining policing," Obama said. "Because there are folks out there who took their oath to serve your communities to your countries [who] have a tough job, and I know you’re just as outraged about the tragedies in the recent weeks as are many of the protesters. So we’re grateful for the vast majority of you who protect and serve. I’ve been heartened to see those in law enforcement who recognize, ’Let me march along with these protestors. Let me stand side by side and recognize that I want to be part of the solution,’ and have shown restraint and volunteered and engaged and listened because you’re a vital part of the conversation, and change is going to require everyone’s participation."

George W Bush also weighed in on the protests, with the "compassionate conservative" who murdered a million Iraqis sending liberals throughout the Twitterverse into fits of ecstasy with his emotional plea for "empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice."

Establishment narrative managers on both sides of America's imaginary partisan divide have been saturating the mass media with gushing praise for the two former presidents and their wonderful words of healing and unity, and indeed, the words are quite nice. They will change exactly nothing, but they sound nice....

Posted by Clem 2020-06-07 09:47|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 I canceled my subscription to Medium when they started to flood me with this crap.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-07 10:27|| 2020-06-07 10:27|| Front Page Top

#2 What do you want, a medal or a chest to pin it on?

Posted by Clem 2020-06-07 10:35|| 2020-06-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe making the "Empire" less desirable is part of the plan?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-07 12:36|| 2020-06-07 12:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Medium.com is just a blogging platform like wordpress.com or forbes.com. People can write whatever.

"And that is exactly what a US president’s real job is. Not to end police brutality and systemic racism, not to make changes which benefit the American people, and certainly not to make the world a less violent and murderous place, but to say pretty words which lull the public into a pleasant propaganda-induced coma while the sociopathic oligarchs who really run things rob them blind."

We were just robbed of what, $2-3 trillion by these sociopathic oligarchs? Poof. Gone. We got crumbs.

Posted by Thurong Whusomp1457 2020-06-07 15:25|| 2020-06-07 15:25|| Front Page Top

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