Splitting Parties

Thomas Friedman is hoping the Republican party will split. They now get a little less than half the votes, but that was enough to elect Trump in 2016. St Hillary got more votes: she had huge majorities in the states that always vote Democrat, while Trump won 30 states with narrow pluralities, so St Hillary did have a plurality of the total vote; however, in the US system, it's not the votes, but the number of Electors. What happened when the 13 colonies agreed to join into a United States was that the smaller of the 13 colonies were afraid the large, industrial states would treat them as mercantile colonies, so they wanted a veto over legislation and the presidency, and they insisted that every state gets 2 Senators, regardless of population, and every  state gets 1 elector for everyone they have in the Congress, so at least 3, even if they have a tiny population. Thus, the agricultural states were able to prevent the industrial states from passing mercantile laws that the small states could only buy from the US industrial states at above world market prices and could only sell to the US industrial states at below world market prices. And this system gave Trump 304 out of 538 Electors and the presidency.

So the current Republican Party is capable of winning elections, and Friedman wants it split. The Trump voters in 2016 consisted of those who liked Trump and those who hated St Hillary, two very different groups, and if the party split on those lines, it would form two parties of about 24% of the vote who would put up 2 different candidates for president in every election. This would ensure Democrat victories in every single national election, since the Democrats would always have a plurality in every state, even if they only had 40% of the total vote.

Actually, the Democrats are also kind-of, sort-of split. There are the DNC Democrats who figure Ss Hillary and Biden are two of the very best candidates for president the US of A has ever had, and then there are those who voted for Trump or third parties or didn't bother to vote because they detested St Hillary. 

The DNC are certain both that Russia stole the election, and also that 52% of the voters actually voted against St Hillary (how could they). Something must be done to make sure this never, ever happens again.

The DNC know for a fact that every single American who failed to vote early and often for St Hillary in 2016 is utterly Deplorable. Enough learned their lesson in 2016 to give St Joe a massive victory in 2020. But it was still far too close. Every single voter who failed to vote early and often for both Ss Hillary and Joe must be disenfranchised, since their votes go against everything the US stands for. But how?

Thomas Friedman stands firmly with the DNC, and he fervently hopes that splitting the Republican party into two small parties would fix that once and for all, so that was his Christmas wish to Santa.

(There are, of course, those who figure in 2016, the Democrats were so sure St Hillary would win those 41 states, maybe all 50, they got lazy and didn't bother to rig the election, a mistake they did not make in 2020, and will not make in 2024.)

Getting rid of dictators

 In 2015, Russia paid Michael Flynn to fly to Moscow and tell them all about Trump. The Russians were a bit shocked when Flynn promised regime change in Iran, the Ayatollahs had to go and Iran had to return to a proper democracy, meaning the US oil companies had to get their rightful property back.

Back in 1951, Mossadegh, a Communist Dictator, took over the government of Iran. We know he was a Communist Dictator because he stole all the UK oil property, so the UK asked the US to help. The fact that a majority of the Iranian people voted for him just means the election was corrupt: no one who steals Western oil property is anything but a Communist Dictator. So the US sent in the CIA who gave money and weapons and support to the group who liberated Iran, transforming it into a Constitutional, Democratic Monarchy with the Shah overseeing the Rule of Law, and all those stolen oil properties returned to their rightful owner: the US oil companies.

Iran lived in peace until 1973, when the Shah suddenly took over the government as a Communist Dictator who was much worse than Mossadegh, because he stole US oil properties. So the US had to once again bring democracy to Iran. Fortunately, Kissinger knew of a cleric with absolutely no interest in oil who was living in Paris, and it was arranged for the CIA to help him form a democratic government in Iran without the Shah. Only that did not work out quite as well as Kissinger and the CIA thought it should have done.

So, ever since 1980, every US president has wanted to bring true democracy to Iran. Only there is the teeny, weeny problem of the Strait of Hormuz. And no US president was willing to take the chance of Iran managing to close the Strait. Flynn said Trump would be able to manage regime change, but the FBI went after all Trump supporters and arrested Flynn, who was asked exactly what he had said on a tapped phone, his recollection didn't match the tape, so he was clearly guilty of perjury and sentenced to a long and well-deserved prison sentence. Clearly, St Hillary deserved to be the First Female President, she had the very best qualifications of anyone to be US president. She promised regime change in Syria and Russia on Day 1. What more could anyone ask?

But then the evil Trump workers somehow managed to get a bunch of Deplorables (with a lot of help from Putin) to steal the election.

As Obama announced in early January (but after 6 January when the election results become irreversible), very few Americans voted for Trump, St Hillary won 30 states by huge margins, but Trump tweeted Putin passwords to pilfer the polls. There was absolutely no other way Trump could possibly have won. We know (from the story of Obama and the cherry tree) that Obama cannot tell a lie, the he had irrefutable proof of this, but, of course, all that proof is classified Top Secret, so no patriotic American would ever want to see any of it, ever patriotic American knows Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election, and does not need or want to see a scintilla of such proof. The major American newspapers reiterated for four years that Trump stole the election, that everyone who helped Trump is a heinous criminal who deserves Life in Prison without the possibility of parole, and that media rightly hated every single Trump pardon of one of those evil supporters. And those who read and believe the obviously true establishment media know that this is an irrefutably proven fact, even if no one can (or should want to) see any of that Top Secret proof.

But Trump will soon be gone for good, and St Biden will bring that regime change to Syria and Russia that St Hillary promised. Or maybe not. St Biden is getting up there in years, and many figure he was just a stand in, put up by Obama to get St Kamala in as the First Black Female president who will finally bring regime change to Syria and Russia, and we know every Syrian and Russian should be eternally grateful.

(As Thomas Friedman said, the US transformed Iraq from a brutal, impoverished dictatorship and state sponsor of terror into a democratic, peaceful, and prosperous paradise, and every single Iraqi should have been eternally grateful, but instead, there were many evil Iraqis who made trouble for the US, costing the US $trillions, but that was all because of the evil Iraqis, who should have handed over all their oil in deep gratitude for the great favour the US did for them and done nothing but thank and  repay the US. But they didn't. Not the fault of Bush, Jr or the US, entirely the evil Iraqis' fault. And everyone knows that Thomas Friedman is by far the best international reporter employed by the media to tell us all what is happening in the world.)

Bringing the light to the people in darkness

 Back when the US was bringing light to the Philippines, Mark Twain wrote that this bringing light was no longer such a good idea, the quality of the remaining darkness was far inferior to that of those nations to which the US had already brought the light. And that seems to be even more true today than back when Twain wrote it around the turn of the 19th century to the 20th.

After Vietnam, Carter failed to bring Democracy to any country, just like Trump. Both were lazy good-for-nothing presidents, and both were booted out of office after one term.

Reagan saw an existential threat to world peace, one of the world's most powerful military powers, but he brought Democracy, peace, and prosperity to Grenada. Bush, Sr. then did the same for Panama.

But then the Austin newspaper had a cartoon of Uncle Sam, the Great White Hunter, holding his elephant gun, with two mouseheads mounted on his trophy wall.

So Bush, Sr. convinced Saddam to take Kuwait, then attacked Iraq and liberated Kuwait, while also imposing crushing sanctions that are thought to have resulted in the deaths of more than 500,000 children who could not get enough food or any medicine for the balance of Bush, Sr's term and Clinton's term and Bush, jr's term.

Then Clinton liberated Yugoslavia, and made a deal just like the Iran deal with Saddam, with UN inspectors verifying that Iraq no longer had any WMD, so Bush, Jr found plenty of WMD the UN missed and sent the US military to hand Saddam over to a lynch mob. Great job. Just what US presidents should be doing.

Obama liberated Libya, and started on Syria.

Then Trump did absolutely nothing, but St Biden has promised to liberate Syria and the Ukraine and Venezuela and Bolivia and ...

Will Russia and the PRC sit back and let St Biden bring Democracy to all those countries, plus also Russia and the PRC?

As I started, the Darkness that is left is not of the same calibre as the darkness that engulfed Grenada and Panama and Iraq and Libya.

Even Iran looks like it could be a very big deal. Let alone Russia and the PRC.

But we'll have St Joe, and I'm sure he knows how to force regime change in Syria, Iran, the DPRK, Russia and the PRC, and won't have the slightest difficulty.

And what could possibly go wrong????

About history

 Primary observers were there, they saw what happened, and they wrote about it. Of course, primary observers have axes to grind, so what they wrote might not be altogether factual.

Secondary researchers weren't even there. They have to take what the primary observers wrote and try to figure out what really happened. But how can they know? 

So, as I wrote, we have multiple histories most of the time, except when one side surrenders unconditionally and is ordered to reiterate the official history and never question it. After WWI, the Central Powers had their own version of what really happened, and published it and taught it in their schools. After WWII, the Axis were ordered to accept the Allied version of the history of the war.

So what is true?

And what happens at High Noon on 20 Jan 2021.

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Yeltsin let the US do whatever it wanted. Putin did for 14 years. But in 2015, he said Russia would fight to keep Syria.

And president-elect Biden says he will force regime change in Syria. Does Putin back down? Not a good idea, president-elect Biden wants to dismantle Russia into a bunch of tiny, unarmed states.

Does Russia shoot down the USAF trying to bomb the Syrian government to oblivion, and, if so, what will President Biden do????

Lots of questions, and we'll get the answers in 45 days, whether we'll like them or not.

Histories

 In school, I learned that the evil Socialists had conquered the entire Eastern Hemisphere in 1940. Then, in December, 1941, the US seed its duty and we dood it, single-handedly liberating Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea and bits of Africa and the Middle East from the evil Socialists.

Later, I read some other histories of WWII. The British version was that the UK had defeated the Nazis by November, 1941, but the assistance of the US shortened the war by a year or so and saved some British lives.

The USSR version was that the UK and France said in '38 they would not go to war with Germany, and the USSR had no choice but to sign a non-aggression pact, which the Nazis violated, and the USSR sacrificed more than 20 million lives to defeat the Nazis. Revisionist US histories say that's pretty much what happened, the US waited until the Soviet Army was advancing through Eastern Europe and the Nazis were pretty much defeated before invading France. The Revisionists say the US could never have defeated the Nazis without the USSR. And they have things like evidence supporting their claims. They also say it was wrong of the US to nuke Japan, and, again, have substantial evidence. But I've mentioned some of these Revisionists, and was corrected: the version I learned in school is 100% correct, and anyone who says it isn't is a proven liar. I asked for the proof, and was told only an evil anti-American would want to see any proof, anyone who reads real history (i.e., US school textbooks) knows that's the only true version.

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Then we have the Bush, Jr improved history of 9/11. The case has been settled in the US courts, that the Bush, Jr 2003 State of the Union Speech finally revealed what years of study had proven was the true story. The attack was planned, organised, and funded entirely by Iran, and was perpetrated by the co-religionists of the Ayatollahs: Mullah Omar's Taliban (Omar is one of the most popular names among the Ayatollahs and their followers), Saddam and his Guards, and Kim and the DPRK. Bush, Jr later found three more evil terrorist groups that helped with the 9/11 attack: Assad's Syrian forces, Gaddafi's Libyan forces, and Castro's Cuban forces. So far, the US has liberated Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, but the DPRK, Syria, Cuba, and Iran must also have their evil regimes changed. Not one Saudi had anything to do with the 9/11 attack, of course, as the US courts verified finding Saudi totally innocent and Iran 100% responsible as the leader of the attack, and who could possibly doubt Bush, Jr, the US mainstream media, and the US courts?

The evil Trump squandered four years when the US military should have been liberating those countries from their evil dictators, but Trump did nothing. Fortunately, Trump is leaving on or before High Noon, 20 Jan, and Biden has promised regime change in Syria starting on Day 1.

Of course, there's a bit more history: the USSR collapsed in '89, and the CIA managed to get Yeltsin in as president, and he said, as long as the CIA kept him in vodka, they could do whatever they wanted. So they dismantled the USSR military, industries, schools, and just about everything else. But then Yeltsin got old and sick and the CIA let them put in an obscure mayor who kept his head down. In 2011, Russia and the PRC agreed in the UN Security Council that the US could force regime change in Libya.

In 2013, Russia and the PRC had no objection to regime change in Syria, but the UK Parliament did, and that was pretty much that.

But in 2015, Putin said Russia would not allow regime change in Syria.

And on 20 Jan 2021, Biden has said he will order the USAF to start removing the Syrian government. He has also said that Russia has been murdering Americans for four years while Trump did nothing, and he is going to punish Russia severely.

He also noted that the PRC Navy has been invading US territorial waters in the South China Sea and building illegal ports there, and he will send the US Navy to put an end to that.

Obviously, Russia won't be a problem. Russia was no match for that French fellow who got an Overture written for his victory over Russia in 1812, and that fellow Barbarossa (whom the Germans say is Austrian and the Austrians say is German) had no trouble with the USSR in 1942, so regime change in Russia should be easier than Panama.

And we know the PRC Navy is just junk, so they won't be able to put up any resistance.

Surely nothing has changed in Russia since 2013 when Putin said they could not object to regime change in Syria, and they'll leave quietly.

And surely nothing in the PRC has changed since 1900, so when a real leader like Biden orders them out of America's South China Sea, they'll also leave quietly.

And putting in the real president of Venezuela, Guaidó, should be an easy job for President Biden, even though the Russian Army and the PRC Army are there, since the PRC figure Venezuela is part of the New Silk Road (not clear why the Russians are supporting the party of the late Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, but they are).

It will be great to have a real leader again instead of Trump who has not liberated a single country in four long years, but that's over now.

And I'm sure all the people in Syria, Russia, the PRC, Iran, Venezuela, and the DPRK are waiting eagerly for the US to bring their countries freedom and democracy.

And what could possibly go wrong?

War is Peace. Peace is War.

 The New York Times say Trump is doing all he can to leave poor President Biden with unnecessary wars he'll have to fight.

First, the US has many, many peacekeeping missions all over the world. The US soldiers, strictly in the interest of peace, bomb houses while the farmers are out farming, killing all their wives and children. That way, the farmers come home to learn that it is useless to resist the US of A, and they become peaceful.

By bringing those troops home and stopping the peace-keeping bombing, Trump is just starting wars where his predecessors had stamped out war and terrorism.

So bombing and killing is peace, and not bombing and killing is war, and if you cannot believe the New York Times, whom can you believe???

Where we are now

 If one reads the Grayzone, they blame the US for the tragedy in Lebanon. Since Lebanon is at war with Israel, the US has severe sanctions against Lebanon, and those sanctions drained a lot of money (and corrupt government officials stole all that was left) leaving no resources to deal with tons of 21-0-0 fertilizer that also happens to be extremely hazardous and prone to explode if ignited. The US says it's not the sanctions that are to blame, but the evil Lebanese government that must resign and let the US appoint a pro-US, pro-Israel government that will gaol every member of Hezbollah. Only then could the US lift those sanctions. 

Of course, US sanctions are also killing people in Venezuela, Syria, and Iran, but those sanctions are necessary, those countries all need to get rid of their evil governments and replace them with good, pro-US, pro-Israel governments who will return all the oil they've been stealing and wasting on their own people to the rightful owners of that oil, the US oil companies, who deserve every drop without spending 1¢ on royalties.

And most Americans know that Trump has been much too soft on the evil dictators in Russia and China. St Hillary promised to force Putin to resign on Day 1 and put in someone like Yeltsin, but Russia stole the election. The Mueller report had page after page of computer code that they assure us prove Russia stole the election. The fact that anyone who can read code cannot see the slightest evidence that Russia did anything just proves that people who can read code can't understand these things the way the US intelligence community can, they are always 100% reliable. We know that Snowden was a lying traitor when he accused the US of spying on everyone, and his so-called 'proof' was manufactured. We know this because Clapper said, under oath, that the US was doing no such thing, and there is no way a top intelligence agent like Clapper could possibly lie to the American people.

So we all figure Trump will be gone 20 Jan 2021, and Biden will finally do the needful and force regime change in Russia and China.

Meanwhile, CoViD-19 has killed almost 800,000 people. There are normally about 30 million deaths from February through August, so CoViD-19 has raised the total number of deaths by about 1%, and the experts say that's all Trump's fault. There was an outbreak of Ebola in the US when Obama was president, but only 2 deaths, and the experts all tell us that the Ebola outbreak would have killed just about everyone if Trump had been in charge instead of Obama, and they also say that the CoViD-19 outbreak will be completely eradicated as soon as Biden takes office.

So, by the end of January, the experts tell us that CoViD-19 will be gone, along with the evil governments of China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and Syria, and the world will be a great place to live.

Especially for cockroaches, what with no longer having to worry about boots.