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Mar 23 2024

New York State Targets U.S. Citizen Donald Trump with Unprecedented Lawfare Maneuver, Effectively to Place Him Under a Personal Consent Decree


Posted originally on the CTH on March 22, 2024 | Sundance 

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, but also mentions “excessive fines” and bail. The “excessive fines” clause surfaces (among other places) in cases of civil and criminal forfeiture. [TEXT and SOURCE]

In New York state, Attorney General Letitia James, in coordination with New York Judge Arthur Engoron, are seeking to continue the targeting of President Donald Trump with a series of financial judgements, penalties and control mechanisms intended to isolate the leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate from his wealth.

As if something akin to the John Galt character in Atlas Shrugged was coming to life, no American individual has ever faced this level of intentional weaponization of power. If the state appellate court does not intervene, I predict a federal judge will have to get involved.  The reason is simple; the State of New York is clearly violating the 8th Amendment, and despite the compromised judiciary, the scale of overreach is even beyond the ability of the pretending judicial system to overlook it.

Perhaps, oddly, despite my intense anger toward these creatures of corruption, I fear not for the final outcome. I fully accept that a righteous and loving God has favor upon Mr. Trump, and there is a protection around him. It is a feeling, a sense about things, that is difficult to explain beyond, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.”

NEW YORK – The New York attorney general’s office has filed judgments in Westchester County, the first indication that the state is preparing to try to seize Donald Trump’s golf course and private estate north of Manhattan, known as Seven Springs.

State lawyers entered the judgments with the clerk’s office in Westchester County on March 6, just one week after Judge Arthur Engoron made official his $464 million decision against Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization.

[…] Trump now has four days to satisfy the judgment or sway an appeals court to allow him to post a smaller amount or defer posting the payment until after the appeal.

[…] The attorney general’s office on Wednesday said that it’s common for large companies to post billion-dollar bonds and suggested Trump should have posted real estate with the court.

“The suggestion is both impractical and unjust. The Attorney General cites no New York case law to support this contention. In any event, from the perspective of risk, the Attorney General’s proposal of a ‘court-appointed officer’ to ‘hold real estate’ is functionally equivalent to what Supreme Court has already imposed through the requirement of a court-appointed monitor to oversee Defendants’ business operations,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.

[…] “By demanding an undertaking in the full amount of the judgment in order to appeal, the Attorney General and Supreme Court have sought to impose a patently unreasonable, unjust, and unconstitutional (under both the Federal and New York State Constitutions) bond condition,” they wrote.

[…] Thursday, Engoron expanded the role of the monitor overseeing the Trump Organization to include more expansive oversight of Trump’s real estate business’ internal financial practices.

[…] “The Trump Organization shall inform the monitor, in advance, of any efforts to secure surety bonds, including any financial disclosures requested or required, any information provided in response to such requests, any representations made by Trump Organization in connection with securing such bonds any personal guarantees made by any of the defendants, and any obligations of the Trump Organization required by the surety,” the judge ordered.

Engoron laid out a timeline of certain steps the Trumps must take within the next month, including providing the monitor, retired Judge Barbara Jones, with full access to its day-to-day financial operations. (more)

Keep in mind, the original civil charge against President Trump revolves around inverting a state statute intended to protect the consumer from predatory lending.  To construct her case, AG James had to reverse the statute and make President Trump a predatory borrower, despite the lenders saying they had no issue with the paperwork used by President Trump to secure reconciled bank loans.

All the banks and lenders did their own due diligence on the financing in question.  All operational loans and business loans were paid back.  There were no defaults or banking interests adversely impacted. There are no victims of what the State calls “fraud,” yet activist judge Engoron ruled against Donald Trump and triggered a fine of nearly half a billion dollars.

Additionally, New York Attorney General Latisha James campaigned for office with promises to target the Trump Organization and Donald Trump himself.  This is transparent and malicious Lawfare in the extreme, and every member of the legal profession, sans ideological leftists/communists, calls it exactly that.

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Mar 23 2024

CHECK THE DATE – Republican Mike Gallagher Quits Congress, Dropping GOP Majority to One Seat


Posted originally on the CTH on March 22, 2024 | Sundance 

Following Ken Buck (U-CO), Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher (U-WI) announces he is leaving congress.

This exit drops the GOP majority in the House to one seat, following a path that seemingly continues to put the Democrats in control prior to the 2024 election.  This should be the GOPe insurance policy against President Trump’s successful election outcome.  There are trillions at stake.

Gallagher’s exit date is as subtle as a brick through a window:

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I said last year to watch out for April 19th, Patriot’s Day. {SEE HERE}

December 2023 – (Via Politico) – […] during a flight from Canada to D.C. on Tuesday morning: former Speaker PAUL RYAN attempting to persuade Rep. MIKE GALLAGHER (R-Wis.) via text message to endorse Haley’s presidential bid. (more)

This is what we are up against.

Everyone has a leverage point.

Be open with your secrets, or you position yourself to be compromised.

I digress….

…If conspiracies were theories, Suspicious Cat wouldn’t exist.

Mar 23 2024

Highlighting Her Alignment, Ronna McDaniel Joins MSNBC


Posted originally on the CTH on March 22, 2024 | Sundance 

Oh, there’s no UniParty silly….  No, none at all.  lolol 

We are past the point where it’s worth talking to anyone who doesn’t accept the nature of the UniParty opposition we are facing.

WASHINGTON DC – Ronna McDaniel, who stepped down as chair of the Republican National Committee earlier this month, will join NBC News as a political analyst starting Sunday.

McDaniel is expected to contribute to both NBC and MSNBC. Her first appearance will be on Sunday on “Meet the Press,” where she will give her first interview since stepping down from the RNC.

[…] “It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” Carrie Budoff Brown, who leads political coverage at NBC, wrote in a memo shared with The New York Times. 

[…] McDaniel joins other Republican contributors at the network including Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, and Brendan Buck, former counselor to Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. (read more)

In order for professional Republicans to continue hoodwinking gullible masses, they must pretend not to know things.

Mar 21 2024

Republican Zionists Collaborating to Buy TikTok


Posted originally on Mar 21, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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China is NOT the reason that Congress nearly unanimously agreed to ban TikTok – the final frontier of free speech. America relies on China for the majority of its pharmaceuticals. China is America’s largest trade partner, and most of the products we use daily are made in China. There have been state provisions, but not much has been done on a federal level about China buying countless acres of farmland across America. Congress did nothing when a member was found to be having an affair with a Chinese spy. Congress did nothing about the Uyghur humanitarian crisis in China. Congress did nothing when it was found that Chinese spies were infiltrating embassies. The list continues.

There are videos on the American version of TikTok criticizing the CCP that have not been removed. There are a lot of videos showing the situation in Gaza that cannot be found elsewhere, and they have not been banned either but no one is worried about Israel having control over American data at this point.

So who put forth the bill to ban TikTok, and why did 90% of US representatives agree to pass legislation within 8 days?

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Republican US Representative Mike Gallagher put forth the bill to ban TikTok. Palantir and Google are his top donors, as you can see for yourself on Open Secrets. You will see that these companies along with META have bought the majority of Congress. Who else is funding Congress? AIPAC, an American lobbying group advocating for pro-Israel policies. AIPAC was Gallagher’s top donor during the last election cycle.

We know that META and Google are in partnership with the CIA and other powerful agencies. They influenced the last election by removing “disinformation” and repressing stories that would harm the Democrats, although they fund both Republicans and Democrats. They did not want to fund the anti-establishment candidate. Google search results consistently lean left and we saw what happened with their failed AI launch of Gemini.

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“The thing I don’t like is that without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media,” Trump recently told CNBC. “I think Facebook has been very dishonest. I think Facebook has been very bad for our country, especially when it comes to elections,” Trump said.

Trump’s Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs alumni, is now attempting to launch a fund to purchase the dangerous TikTok platform. He is recruiting every known Zionist, from Michael Milken to Mossad’s spy chief Yossi Cohen. All of the people who surrounded Trump during his presidency no longer support him.

Cohen happens to be retiring from his role as spy chief. Trump pardoned Milken, the father of the junk bond, before leaving office. I have no problem calling out both sides for wrongdoing.

Liberty Strategic Capital, led by Mnuchin, is currently working to buy TikTok with the backing of an assortment of known Zionists. “I think the legislation should pass, and I think it should be sold,” Mnuchin told CNBC. This is legalized robbery and bipartisan corruption. The Republicans are supporting this measure to purchase TikTok, but it is highly unlikely that Biden would intervene because he needs to discredit his only opponent, and the CIA supports his donors – AIPAC, META, and Google.

Mar 21 2024

Tony Bobulinski Calls Lawfare Representative Dan Goldman “A Liar”


Posted originally on the CTH on March 20, 2024 | Sundance

Dan Goldman is a Lawfare trust fund millionaire who was installed in Congress specifically to construct Lawfare arguments during testimony and defend Obama/Biden’s interests.  Before taking office, Goldman was the outside government Lawfare counselor selected by the impeachment committee to question witnesses. That’s his sole purpose, and the reason for existing.

After entering Congress, via New York, Goldman continues his Lawfare objectives from inside government.  Today, Goldman’s target was former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski, who was giving testimony about the Biden family financial schemes.  At the conclusion of Goldman’s parseltongue, Bobulinski called him “a liar.”  The Lawfare leftists are big mad.  WATCH:

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It’s a little funny, but trying not to be outdone, AOC applied the same confrontational style.  The problem is that AOC is at an intellectual disadvantage; it didn’t go too well.

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Clay Higgins questions Bobulinski about the China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC), and payments to the Biden family.

BlackRock has been called the world’s largest Shadow Bank.

BlackRock was scrutinized for allegedly taking advantage of its close ties with the Federal Reserve during the China Virus Pandemic response efforts.

Tons of Chinese firms received bailouts.https://t.co/yTMbinLWEL

— Ben Tallmadge (@BenTallmadge01) June 20, 2021

May 2021, BlackRock received approval to begin operating a wealth management business in mainland China.

The joint venture includes 50.1% owned by BlackRock + China Construction Bank & Singapore’s state fund Temasek.https://t.co/7ysgXZGwMg pic.twitter.com/RjX895d71h

— Ben Tallmadge (@BenTallmadge01) June 20, 2021

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— Ben Tallmadge (@BenTallmadge01) June 20, 2021

The BlackRock China Fund includes Chinese companies involved in cyber espionage, violating North Korean sanctions, money laundering, and using Xinjiang blood cotton for their craps. pic.twitter.com/41uXkDbL3C

— Ben Tallmadge (@BenTallmadge01) June 20, 2021

Behind the Biden’s is a massive financial system controlled by who?… Blackrock.

CEFC = Auto Batteries.

CEFC = Blackrock

Biden EPA mandate

CEFC = Blackrock https://t.co/SEM5fykVwd

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) March 20, 2024

Pictured above BlackRock Investment Institute Chairman Tom Donilon (former National Security Advisor to President Obama), celebrating an international collaboration with China’s Chairman Xi Jinping.
Mar 21 2024

Judge McAfee Grants Trump Team Ability to Expedite Appellate Review of Decision Allowing Fani Willis to Remain on Case


Posted originally on the CTH on March 20, 2024 | Sundance

Atlanta Judge Scott McAfee ruled today that President Trump, and eight other co-defendants in the Georgia election fraud case, can proceed with an emergency appeal of his decision last week. That decision allowed lying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to stay on the prosecution despite her affair with the special prosecutor she hired to oversee it, and despite the lies she told trying to hide it.

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In a brief order issued Wednesday, Judge Scott McAfee granted the certificate of immediate review requested by President Trump. They are now expected to ask the Georgia Court of Appeals to take up the disqualification battle before the case goes to trial. (media)

Mar 21 2024

Peter Navarro Delivers Remarks Before Reporting to Federal Prison for Contempt of a Congressional J6 Subpoena


Posted originally on the CTH on March 19, 2024 | Sundance 

People have asked me why I have remained relatively quiet about the legal issue and targeting of Peter Navarro by a weaponized DOJ and Congress.  I will explain in greater detail after the news from today.

Peter Navarro was a former adviser to President Trump and the lead of the coronavirus task force.  Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a short opinion rejecting Navarro’s effort to have the Supreme Court intervene and stay his sentence.

Mr. Navarro was charged with contempt of Congress,  and was prosecuted by the DOJ and convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the J6 House Select Committee investigating the protest at the U.S. Capitol.  [Note, most of you know I received a similar subpoena from them, so I have a slightly different perspective than most.]

[…] Navarro spoke Tuesday morning in a strip mall in West Miami near the prison where he will serve four months. “I will walk proudly in there to do my time,” Navarro said. “I will gather strength from this: Donald John Trump is the nominee.”  Navarro called the case an “unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers.” (media story)  WATCH:

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I have a great deal of sympathy for Navarro.  I firmly believe he was unfairly targeted by the J6 committee and a weaponized DOJ who were looking for any opportunity to target people in Donald Trump’s orbit – including Navarro and Steve Bannon.  I regard Navarro as a really awesome ally, and functionally very smart and apt at the responsibilities he held in the White House.  Navarro is a good man.

Navarro was charged with failure to provide testimony and documents to Congress.  Navarro argued that executive privilege covered his refusal to provide testimony and documents.

The executive privilege that covers private conversation is held by President Trump and cannot be, should not be, waived by any advisor to the president.  However, there is a key element in the executive privilege aspect that is mostly overlooked by righteous pundits and conservative analysts as it pertains specifically to Navarro.

Notice how there has been no report of Peter Navarro asking President Trump or his legal counselors if they would agree to waive privilege in regard to his conversations and communication with the office of the president.  Apparently, Navarro never asked POTUS or the legal team if compliance with the subpoena was diligent from the perspective of the executive.  The absence of this approach is key and is part of my angst with the Navarro targeting.

Navarro never held any information, content, communication with, or conversation with President Trump that represented a threat to the president.  There simply wasn’t any conversation that would put the office of the presidency at risk, nor Donald Trump himself, if he gave testimony about conversation, while being represented by his lawyers and the legal representative of President Trump’s stood by to monitor the testimony and guard the executive privilege.

Secondly, the documents could be -and likely were- obtained by the J6 committee through electronic retrieval on their own.  On the document issue, it’s almost certain the committee issued subpoenas to email providers, cell phone providers, etc. and had the documentary information anyway.  The J6 lawyers would be looking for Navarro to filter, delete, hide or ¹change a document…. not as much the content therein.   The legal risk within documents, assuming that Navarro never advocated for anything illegal, is simply a risk from non-production.  That’s it.  [SEE, Trump #1 RULE: If you don’t want documents used against you, don’t create them.]

[¹Remember, that’s what burned George Papadopoulos]

Again, the J6 people can -I would guarantee did- retrieve every document they wanted; the non-production by the target is a silly hill to die on.  The truth has no agenda, nor can the truth be a weapon, if the truth of the documents did not present a legal threat by themselves.  Considering that Navarro is *not* the principal holder of the privilege, this non-production is like shooting yourself in the foot.

Had Navarro simply asked the White House and President Trump legal counsel about whether he should comply or not, and then put the burden of executive privilege on them, it would be the White House and the full weight of the Office of the Presidency defending Navarro from testimony and representing Trump’s legal interests.

I hope people can grasp what I am saying.

Ask the principal, that’s Donald Trump, if he wants to apply executive privilege.  If he does not, then give honest testimony about facts, conversations and events that present no legal threat to the principal.  The only reason to avoid this simple process is – I believe in this instance – the pride, ego and a willingness to enter into a fight where all the power is aligned against you.

I understand why being targeted by a weaponized government makes a person feel intensely angered and would trigger the fight instinct.  However, prudence, calm thoughts and reasonable intelligent thinking can ensure that BRUTAL HONESTY, which is to say carefully applied and strategic “extreme compliance,” is the best weapon against the bastards.

Peter Navarro is a good man, a very good man, who unfortunately made some strategic legal mistakes. I have a great deal of sympathy for Peter Navarro and feel he has been very unjustly targeted.

Also….. STUDY THIS GUY!

Background PART 1

Background PART 2

Don’t hate me until you have read both parts.

Love to all, Sundance

Mar 19 2024

Democrats Are Dancing in the Streets Over Bankrupting Trump & Family


Posted Mar 19, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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I have warned that our computer has put out a MAJOR long-term SELL SIGNAL on New York City.  You had better get the HELL out of NYC and not do business with ANY company in New York City, for the courts are no longer reliable. The novel action against Trump is that they claimed your house is worth one million for a loan even though the bank independently values it at $800k and lends you $500k. Despite you paying back the loan and the banks even testifying that they did not rely on that number, the NY court arbitrarily called that FRAUD. There is ABSOLUTELY no company that cannot now be utterly destroyed in NYC using this theory. They could even target individuals they do not like and take their homes as well.

NYC Retail EMployment

To demonstrate that this is NOT my personal opinion, here is a chart of employment in the retail business sector from the Federal Reserve. You can see how NYC went nuts with COVID. The collapse was so devastating that it elected all three sets of Major Monthly Bearish Reversal groups of four. This is it. NYC will NEVER return – it is time to turn the lights out.

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NYC Retail EMployment Array Y 3 14 24

We can see that the September time period is also showing up in this time series as well as being a Directional Change. Then, it does not look really promising after that. Indeed, the year 2025 is a serious Directional Change, and it appears that New York City will turn down very seriously with the ECM calling for a recession into 2028/2029.

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People have been predicting the stock market is going to crash by 90% because they keep looking back at the charts from the Great Depression. However, the market peaked in September 1929 and fell for 34 months into July 1932. Here, New York peaked in December 2014 and declined for six years into the COVID low, twice the time period of the Great Depression.  Our long-range projections are calling for a 19-year decline into 2032. That is what this model did on Gold in 1980, and nobody believed it. But the low in gold was 19 years later, in 1999.

NEW YORK CITY IS A GIANT SHORT

What they are doing to Trump is so outrageous that it demonstrates that New York City is NOT a place to be trusted ever again. They can find you guilty and impose a fine of $1 trillion. You then can’t appeal unless you have cash or can post a bond. There are no bond companies with that kind of backing to be able to issue a bond for Trump regardless of the fee. So how does that stack up? They just start liquidating everything he has and claim he has no right to appeal anything?  That’s what the Democrats are celebrating dancing wildly in the streets.

Turn out Lights

I am giving everyone a fair warning. There is ABSOLUTELY no rule of law left standing in New York City, and having any kind of account there simply puts that at risk. In international funds management, the FIRST rule in the game is the rule of law and COUNTRY RISK. Are your assets safe?

Country Risk

This is why you cannot invest in Iran. They nationalize all the oil assets with their Islamic Revolution, much as the Communists did in Russia back in 1917. New York City now presents that same risk after these insane judgments imposed on Trump that everyone knows is purely political. They are destroying the very fabric of the United States apart at the seams. The ONLY solution will be a separation of the United States, for in the end, with no rule of law left standing, there can be no commerce and no civilization.

Mar 19 2024

President Trump Lawyers Ask for an Appellate Review of Judge McAffee Decision Against Fani Willis


Posted originally on the CTH on March 18, 2024 | Sundance

When Atlanta Judge Scott McAfee ruled recently in the Fani Willis decision TechnoFog noted, “Judge McAfee rules that only one potential liar can prosecute the case – but not both potential liars. Instead of curing the “appearance of impropriety”, it allows it to continue. If Nathan Wade goes, why can Fani Willis stay? McAfee doesn’t give an answer.”

To chase down this judicial question, lawyers representing President Trump and seven co-defendants, collectively accused of RICO conspiracy, today asked McAfee to issue a certificate of immediate review of his order denying disqualification of Fani Willis.

The certificate, if issued, would allow the defendants to seek an immediate appeal of the order. Because in order for President Trump to appeal the order denying disqualification prior to trial, the defendants must obtain a certificate of immediate review within 10 days from the date of the order.  Today Trump’s lawyers asked for that certificate.  [pdf of motion HERE]

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(VIA NBC) – […] It’s important to note that there isn’t an automatic right to appeal at this stage. Rather, McAfee would need to grant permission to do so within 10 days of his ruling, and then the state appeals court would need to agree to hear the case. If that happens, it could bring yet more delay to the prosecution that doesn’t even have a trial date yet and has already been sidetracked by the disqualification motion that led to McAfee’s ruling.

It’s unclear if the judge would grant such permission to appeal at this stage. In a recent unrelated ruling in which he dismissed some of the indictment’s counts, McAfee said he’d be inclined to permit an appeal of that ruling. But he didn’t say that in his disqualification order. That doesn’t automatically mean he wouldn’t permit an appeal, but he didn’t go out of his way to signal his openness to the idea like he did in his dismissal ruling. 

In his disqualification order, McAfee said that the defense failed to prove an actual conflict of interest, but that the appearance of impropriety meant that either Willis (and her whole office) or special prosecutor Nathan Wade had to go. Wade resigned that same day. Though he deemed a speech she gave improper, McAfee declined to disqualify Willis because of alleged “forensic misconduct” based on it. If defendants are allowed to mount an appeal, they could cite the damning facts McAfee found to argue that he reached the wrong legal conclusion by not disqualifying Willis. (read more)

Statement of Steve Sadow, lead defense counsel for President Trump in the Fulton County, GA case:

“President Trump and seven defendants have jointly filed a motion requesting the Court to grant a certificate of immediate review of its Order denying dismissal of the case and disqualification of Fulton County DA Willis. The motion notes that the Court found that Willis’ actions created an appearance of impropriety and an “odor of mendacity” that lingers in this case, but it nonetheless refused to dismiss the case or disqualify her. The motion further notes that the Court found Georgia case law lacks controlling precedent for the standard for disqualification of a prosecuting attorney for forensic misconduct. For these reasons among others, the Court’s Order is ripe for pretrial appellate review.” (LINK)

Mar 18 2024

How the Neocons Treat Veterans


Posted Mar 18, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

This is the side of the news that the mainstream media will NEVER cover. The neocons backed by the establishment calculatingly fabricate new wars and expect you to offer your life for their war games. Rarely is the true motive protecting the nation. Veterans deserve the utmost respect, especially from those in the establishment who rely on these brave men and women to maintain their global standing. Militaries target young men before they graduate high school with promises of an easier future, paid housing, health benefits, paid schooling, and much more. Yet, these very people have no concern or respect for the men and women who proudly serve.

At the commencement of every military funeral, the widow or mother of the fallen soldier is presented with a flag and told the following:

“On behalf of the President of the United States, [the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Navy or the United States Air Force] and a grateful nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your loved one’s honorable and faithful service.”
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The wounded Marine in the clip above discusses his interaction with Commander in Chief Joe Biden, who visited his bedside after a horrific injury left him with amputated limbs. Biden offered no condolences but used the opportunity as a public relations stunt to appear sympathetic to the men he willingly sends off to battle. The mother of this Marine was furious and told the president that he better take care of her son the way that her son gave everything for his country. Joe Biden leaned over and whispered in his ear, “What do you want?”

Imagine the disrespect of having the commander-in-chief visit your bedside only to ask you what you wanted, offering no condolences to you or your loved ones. “I just got blown up; I just saw my friends die in front of me; I just want to be myself,” the Marine wanted to reply.

Yet, we have leaders proudly speaking on behalf of NATO, stating that they are willing to send in troops at a moment’s notice. Why should they risk their lives? One could understand the patriotism of protecting one’s country if that were the premise. Military recruitment is at an all-time low because they expect these men and women to protect their foreign interests while fighting endless battles.

“What do you want?” should be the military’s new recruitment message. These neocons simply do not care that they are destroying lives and dismantling families for their war games.