To be honest, if you look at the PoV of anyone not ultra-rich and/or of European ancestry, the U.S. has always been an imperial state that put up a false-front of freedom and democracy.

Maybe that’s who we really were all along.

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From the short book, “War is a Racket”, published in 1935, by Gen Smedley Butler, retired Marine Corp General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. In his 1935 lecture he said “wars are conducted for the benefit of a small group of insiders while the majority bear the costs, and that debt from wars is always paid by future generations.”

He participated in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Banana Wars, Central American military actions, Haiti, World War I, etc.

Written by a man who was recruited by the NSA was “on the payroll of an international consulting firm.”.
“His job was to implement policies that promoted the interests of the U.S. corporatocracy while professing to alleviate poverty…”

I highly recommend this New York Times bestseller.

And it’s already Saturday morning.

of this country since the Vietnam war. The world now views us with the same disgust as we viewed Hitler and Saddam. Shame on us for electing this madman and after all the crap he has pulled allowing him to remain in office to pull off bullshit like this. As times goes on this will blow up in our faces.

from hosting the Copa?
Why would anyone want to come here?

A glitter-coated hat and an old campaign T-shirt.