I stumbled across this, completely typical word usage today:
The Somali government officially announced that it was starting a blockade. Same as the US blockade. Same as the Iranian blockade.
So either it’s all piracy, or it’s all “boarding.”
We have seen a constant refusal to call Palestinian children, children. The words “Israel killed” are never used in the Western press. And then there’s the constant use of the words terrorist and terrorism, the two most meaningless words in the English language.
terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective
Cambridge:
violent action or threats designed to cause fear among ordinary people, in order to achieve political aims.
By either of these definitions, the world’s greatest users of terrorism are America and Israel. No one else comes close, not even the Russians.
The word terrorist always describes non-state actors with limited reach, or state actors like Iran. Yet Iran’s strikes were not intended to cause fear among the civilian population: they were intended to hurt the economies and militaries of the West and the Gulf Arab states which allow attacks on Iran. Schools and hospitals were not targeted.
Iran has gone out of its way to not kill civilians. In the Ukraine war the death rate for children is under 1%. In Palestine it’s somewhere around 32%. In Iran it was about 16%.
The US and Israel have repeatedly said that one goal is to cause the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the Iranian state. The method of doing this is attacking civilian targets. Indeed the latest war on Iran began with an attack on a children’s school. Hospitals are systematically targeted, as are paramedics and firefighters.
Hezbollah, likewise, tends to stick to military targets. Even Hamas mostly hits military targets.
Yet somehow the nations who are primarily committing terrorism: the US and Israel, are never described as terrorists. Russia, Iran, Hezbolla and Hamas: they’re always terrorists, even when they attack military targets.
In Britain terrorist designations have been used against protesters who have never harmed civilians. The same is true in Germany.
The word means nothing, and Western media outlets are nothing but propagandists. Most aren’t even allowed to say the word “genocide”. It’s publisher policy. (Publishers always make these decisions. Editors are downstream and are routinely over-ridden by publishers, though most American journalists seem to be OK with being propagandists. Those who aren’t tend to be fired, or eventually leave in disgust.)
Terrorism means “violence by people who are our enemies” and nothing else. Genocide is never done by us, only by our enemies. If half a million children die due to sanctions, it’s “worth it”, in the immortal word of Secretary of State Madeline Albright.
None of this will come as a shock to my readers, I know. But I think it’s worth emphasizing just how worthless our media has become. They lie, they propagandize, they refuse to state the obvious: indeed their job is to lie, to pretend the sun is purple with silver polka-dots and that the sky isn’t blue. There’s no genocide in Palestine. No sir. But there is one China, oh yes. And our enemies are terrorists, but we, who actively target schools and hospitals and bomb weddings and funerals, we’re the good guys.
It was always bad, to be sure. But I’ve lived a long time now and it keeps getting worse. In the old days some columnist would be allowed to tell the truth. Articles would have misleading headlines but the actual facts were in the article, albeit sometimes near the end.
You can still, with very careful reading, get some truth from the legacy media. Some. But if you want unfettered news and not to have to work like a dog, you have to go to alternative media and read foreign sources directly.
This isn’t trivial, because most people don’t do the extra work, which means that even if suspicious of official narratives, they live in a soup of lies and their understanding of the world is wrong. I still regularly run across people who think the US can open the Strait of Hormuz with direct military naval action, which is deranged. It’s not possible.
But there is something good about completely out-to-lunch propaganda. Over time people see thru it. They stop trusting. They stop believing anything they’re told.
But that’s also a bad thing: there is no consensus world view left, just a series of tribes with their own echo chambers. Without a shared understanding of the world that is not completely unhinged from reality, there’s no basis for social action which works. China has the buy-in of most of their population because they believe in what China does, and trust the government. (Research on this is very clear. Chinese citizens do trust the CPC.) In the US there can be no concerted action because their is no trust left. Hell, Trump contradicts himself regularly. He’ll say the sky is green in the morning and announce it’s magenta at supper.
No society riven like this and basing its decisions on delusion rather than truth can act effectively. America can’t fix anything, can’t win wars, can’t reindustrialize and much of this is because Americans live in a world of fantasy.
The first step in fixing anything; in running any sort of society worth living in, is facing at least some of the facts: of living in the real world. It’s been a long time since the West acknowledged reality, and our delusions are just getting worse.
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Bill
A great comment during the Vietnam war in 1968 February 7th Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett a memorable explanation for the destruction.
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,” a U.S. major said Wednesday.
cc
“the world’s greatest users of terrorism are America and Israel. No one else comes close”
Thank you for this post Ian, completely agree.
The Anglo-Zionist-led West is probably the most propagandized and brainwashed society in world history. So brainwashed that most of this society has no idea, and, in fact, will vehemently reject it if someone even suggests it.
I’m reminded of the movie “Jojo Rabbit” where a young boy is so completely brainwashed by Nazi Germany’s anti-Judaic propaganda. It’s now the same in the West, but it’s anti-Islamic, anti-Russian, anti-China, anti-Iran propaganda. It’s in fact anti-Semitic propaganda when you take back the word Semitic from the Anglo-Zionist-led West’s cultural appropriation and perversion of the word: white European Ashkenazi Jews, and the plurality of Israeli Jews, are not Semites or Semitic. The Palestinians are Semites.
I just watched the movie “The Voice of Hind Rajab”. So many in the West should watch that movie, and then ask themselves: who are the real terrorists?
different clue
George Orwell wrote about a version of this sort of in his own day in an essay titled:
Politics and the English Language.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/
And Confucius wrote about versions of this problem even longer ago than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectification_of_names
( though Confucius’s concern may have been with consistency of Ruling Governmental Control as much as with Abstract Objective Truth).
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/59702/what-did-confucius-mean-by-saying-that-the-rectification-of-names-is-the-first
Kfish
As Confucius said in the Analects, “If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.” (Otherwise known as the ‘rectification of names’ principle.)
Egoculexegonos
By mastering weaselmantics in a big mainstream media outlet (i.e. perceived as reliable by default) one manages to successfully inoculate a point of view, a frame, a narrative. It gets in smoothly, without opposition and it doesn’t take long for the receiver to metabolize it so they quickly believe it’s their own logical idea. It’s a powerful tool. That’s howhy cultural hegemony exists and prospers.
mago
Two hands clapping.
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I’ve noticed a pronounced increase in the use of acronyms in the last five to ten years but especially the last several years. The avant-garde of the so-called alternative media has really carried the torch on this. The latest is the WHCD, but there is one a day at this point. Even I am enticed to engage in the frenzy from time to time. I recently have used SMO and SoH, although I would fail an acronym test if I was forced to sit for one.
It’s lazy and, of course, it’s militaristic and an unconscious reflection of the militarization of our society, nay of civilization. The military loves acronyms and that is spilling over bigly into civilian society.
Texting has a lot to do with it as well. Texting for many is conducted in a form of shorthand. I don’t do this but everyone around me does for the most part to one degree or another. I also don’t text that much and one of the reasons is because it doesn’t lend itself to a substantive exchange and I don’t want to waste my time with trivial small talk all day using acronyms and shorthand.
Feral Finster
“The US and Israel have repeatedly said that one goal is to cause the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the Iranian state. The method of doing this is attacking civilian targets. Indeed the latest war on Iran began with an attack on a children’s school. Hospitals are systematically targeted, as are paramedics and firefighters.”
The goal of the United States and Israel is to turn Iran into a failed state.
The vandalism and sadism are the point.
mago
Wasting time, wasting away while the PTB steal your agency along with those alphabet agencies like the CIA FBI HS and and and . . .
Then we’ve got the PMC and the other powers and wannabes that want to take you down and turn you round.
But wait. That’s some deep dark pessimism talking right there, bro. Tamp it down turn it around and put on a happy face on the good ship lollipop where troubles melt like lemon drops and everything is hap hap happy forever. lmao.
StewartM
A keeper.
I still remember your essay “Essential Insanity.” It’s even more true now.
Bruce Lesnick
“They’ll call you a terrorist if you are fighting poverty and want / But you’re a freedom fighter if you kill for GM or DuPont “ For full song see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9Ez13_nHU&list=RDlM9Ez13_nHU&start_radio=1
ventzu
It is infuriating.
“I still regularly run across people who think the US can open the Strait of Hormuz with direct military naval action”. Yep – interestingly I see many comments from investment professionals believing this to be the case and the oil / gas / derivatives crisis likely to be over soon. They have all subscribed to what they read in MSM and wishful thinking (“nothing bad ever happens to us”).
This article in The Guardian yesterday tried to paint a picture of how people in Iran yearn for freedom – based on interviews with “six ordinary Iranians”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/apr/27/i-should-not-have-wished-for-war-six-ordinary-iranians-on-how-the-us-israel-conflict-has-changed-them
All they had to do was look at University of Maryland Centre for International and Security Studies, which had done polling in Iran since 2014.
In December 2025 they published a report on Iranian perceptions of last year’s 12 day war, which noted inter alia:
– Majorities in Iran did not see the Twelve-Day War in June as a defeat but instead said their country effectively defended itself and withstood the attacks
– Four in five thought Iran’s government succeeded in preventing food and fuel shortages during the war
– Seven in ten said the general economic situation is bad – blaming economic mismanagement, corruption and sanctions
– Attitudes toward President Pezeshkian were as positive (two-thirds regarded him favourably; compare with Trump and Starmer!!!) in October 2025 as they were in the honeymoon period right after he took office
– Roughly half trusted the authorities of the Islamic Republic. Three-quarters of respondents still want policymakers to take religious teachings into account
– A slim majority wanted to “develop both atomic bombs and nuclear power.”
– Most respondents viewed permanent limits on Iran’s nuclear program, an end to uranium enrichment, or a reduction in the range of ballistic missiles as unacceptable
– Seven in ten considered sanctions relief with a step-by-step structure to ensure that Iran gets benefits in return for concessions as necessary components of an acceptable deal
https://cissm.umd.edu/research-impact/publications/iranian-public-opinion-soon-after-twelve-day-war
A week ago they published another report in Responsible Statecraft, examining attitudes towards the US both before and after US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the nuclear issue (signed by Obama), in 2018. Key findings from polling:
– Favourability towards the US dropped sharply from 26% before withdrawal from the JCPOA to 14% after
– Interestingly pre-withdrawal even of the US favourable minority, 87% were favourable toward the American people, but ONLY 34% were favourable toward the US government! This fell sharply post-withdrawal
– And for even the US favourable minority, 78% said Iran’s development of its missile program was somewhat or very important
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-regime-change-iran/
They conclude:
“Nobody should be surprised that the war launched on February 28 did not accelerate anti-government protests in Iran . . . There is a constituency for reciprocity and an equitable nuclear deal. There was never any evidence of a significant constituency for maximum pressure, much less for liberation by bombing”
Of course this was never about concern for Iranian people and human rights – it was always about oil and geopolitical ‘great game’.
bruce wilder
I skimmed thru a recent interview Jeffrey Sachs gave to Tucker Carlson and he shared that he had recently travelled to China to learn about some policy economic initiative. What most impressed him was how deliberative the Chinese had been in developing the policy program.
Effective deliberation seems like an impossible dream in the West.
Pelican
fave bumper sticker: “Reality is relevant”
Carborundum
The most salient thing about Iranian public opinion on nuclear weapons development isn’t the point estimate, it’s that opinion is rapidly changing. That 51% who support the notion of nuclear energy and weapons co-development is up from 36% in July of 2022. Similarly, the percentage of the population viewing the development of nuclear weapons as against the teachings of Islam has dropped from 71% in 2014 to 47% in 2025. Those are rapid shifts.
Feral Finster
Oh, very well, then:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/three-recent-examples-of-ai-being
Mark Level
Yes, “The Mighty Wurlitzer” of State Propaganda by faux, captured MICIMATT (coined by Ray McGovern) sources is impossible to miss, if your IQ is above room temperature. That is an acronym that is brilliant. Uniformly good comments, ventzu’s point about the cherry-picked 6 Iranians who “yearn to be free” or whatever cliches are used, fits; also everything cc states is clear and obvious.
This shit, these total lies, go back immediately to the aftermath of WW II, ultimately with roots during the war and in WWI as well, obviously. Ian’s point that at a certain point people (mostly) realize they are being lied to, but as Hannah Arendt stated, a majority simply stops believing nearly everything, few are wise enough or willing to expend energy to find trustworthy sources.
When I was a high school librarian, I worked with the English Dept. to try to share with students a mnemonic which gave 4 standards for assessing the reliability of written communications (& not just that, works with podcasts, etc), ABCD.
“Authority, Bias, Content, Date”, see here– https://libguides.nova.edu/c.php?g=1236356&p=9047250
Authority– The NY Times and WaPo nominally project this but are really the biggest gaslighters and liars imaginable. Their Bias, the next one, is Elite and Institutionalist, they think “We are the Elites with our Elite Education, a true meritocracy, the little people must listen to us, we know what is best.” But they serve both Endless War and State Violence (including racial and gender based repression), will at least performatively gesture as pro-racial equality and very much so viz gender standards so as to simulate being “liberal.” They are, like the Dimmie Party, Center Right, Lesser Evils who exist to move the Overton Window ever to the Right, and crush the plebs more daily.
A commenter mentions “We had to destroy the village in order to save it” during the Vietnam War. This demonstrates pure bias by the speaker. I recall teaching this to students, there were always a few who did not see the pure insanity of the claim, had a naive trust in authority of the speaker and tried to suss out how it could make sense!! My direct response was usually to the effect of, “If I told you I needed to chop off my right arm in order to strengthen it, would you believe me?” Or “I’m going to gain 100 lbs. in order to slim down?” This usually cut through the fog of propaganda.
Next is Content. The link shows the 3 bases of this, but I particularly emphasized verification by other sources. Why do sick people often want 2 Doctors opinions? (Assuming they can afford it.) I did a chart of Left, Right, and Center sources online for students contemporary when I was teaching. I did Ur-sources for both Left and Right, for the Right I used the Drudge Report as he aggregated a long list with links of fellow right-wing outlets. For the Left I used TomDispatch, which did something very similar at the time. I’m sure Drudge is still running, unsure if TD still has a plethora of links. For the Center I did the Institutional gasligters, WaPo, NYT, The Hill, etc.
Lastly is Date, how current is the source? This particularly applies in scientific and technological sources, in most areas of those, anything 2-3 years old is basically as useful as a 1920s source. Less so in politics or sociology of course, but (with exceptions) this holds.
Let’s look at some recent examples– The shooting at the same hotel where Ronnie was shot, supposedly threatening Trump, a very obvious Psy-op. But the MICIMATT pushers will claim anything that doubts the narrative is pure “Conspiracy Theory.”
Obvious data points to show this: JD Vance was raced out by the SS immediately and not Trump. The shooter was on another floor of the hotel, so Donnie got to sit with Melania, photoed at the table both looking serene and brave. Kash Patel didn’t have an alcoholic beverage (or several) on the table in front of him!! (Credit to Keaton Weiss, 1st to note that that I know of.) Erica Kirk got to parade before cameras “sobbing” with faux fear and sadness.
“Another” sinister murder attempt on our brave, flawless Dear Leader!! Perhaps ultimately he didn’t want to be lampooned by the State Press Tongue Bathers, he cannot stand ANY perceived criticisms or opinion other than that he is more consequential than any human being who has ever lived: Adam, Eve, Jesus, Napoleon, Alexander Magnus, Einstein, Giordano Bruno or Hypatia (okay, he’s never heard either of those names). The Press treats the pure Narrative Show as Reality & Truth, even asking a single obvious question is “conspiracy” lunacy.
E.g, why was the shooter after discharging at least 2 shots and hitting a cop in a Safety Vest (no serious injury or death) not shot immediately by the SS and all the other armed security there? Why would that idiot bring a shotgun to fire with, and additionally 2 handguns, and knives. This is straight from the movies. Why then was he taken down safely, partially stripped and tied up, no serious injury?
Clearly a paid, or MKULTRA-type provoked patsy, like Lee Harvey Oswald. But Lee, who had security clearances as a young soldier at Atsuga, Japan, knew he was a Patsy, couldn’t live to squeal. (If you want a great book on the JFK murder, I highly recommend Don DeLillo’s “Libra,” billed as fiction, in actuality more factual than fictional, very well-researched. Oliver Stone’s film JFK was not bad, but as a film it’s going to be shallow and leave out relevant info for a 2-3 hour format, so it won’t hold up over time. )
In closing, yes, Israel never kills civilians, especially not women or children or old people, they simply “die” in the passive voice. The US invades other nations to “help” them by first destroying the government and infrastructure, many atrocities but we mean well. Once on Chapo Trap House they were discussing good documentary films on the Vietnam War and they praised Ken Burns’ “We Meant Well” big lies.
I wrote an excoriating comment, I knew that Will Menaker and Matt Christman were much too smart to put much stock in that bullshit, Biederman may’ve been absent but he would’ve been smarter too. I got a response from them thru Chris Wade, the producer, and he admitted they all knew I was correct and they’d made a sloppy misclaim.
Oakchair
It gets in smoothly, without opposition and it doesn’t take long for the receiver to metabolize it so they quickly believe it’s their own logical idea
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Some might call it brainwashing, or mind control, though in a far less dramatic Hollywood style.
One reason for the continued succus of this propaganda is the layers to it. Someone who works through one or a few layers gains a sense of arrogance and intellectual superiority. There is also an emotional and social cost from recognizing and also rejecting a tenant of your societies civil religion.
One effect of working through a few layers is an inherent avoidance of working through the other layers. Leaving people just were the dystopia wants them. Trapped in the propaganda unwilling to push through because of their perceived intellectual superiority and the large emotional and social cost of rejecting even more common narratives.
Jan Wiklund
The word “terrorist” was from the beginning meant to be a rubber concept. The German law from 1977 against terrorism defined it as to “obstruct the action of authorities”, which meant that even an appeal could be branded as terrorism if the authorities wanted it to be. Of course it rarely wanted – but IF, the law was there to be used.
Which implies that we, in principle, are back into the Ancien Régime, where the wishes of the prince is law. But the only consequence of that is that people have to become revolutionaries rather than quiet reformists, because even reform would be illegal.
Feral Finster
By attacking Iran, the United States and Israel destroyed what little remaining constituency Iranian moderates have left. Hopelessly naive at best, working for the murderers of Iranian children at worst.
Since the goal ever always only was to turn Iran into a failed state, this is entirely intentional.
shagggz
“Not ‘even’ the Russians”?
I know you go on to drive home the point that the West’s designated eternal enemies aren’t remotely in the same league with committing terrorism, but this wording seems to insinuate the opposite.
More echoes of your stating that Putin is “evil”, when in fact he bends over backwards to not respond to provocations, having been well within his rights to launch nukes many times over by now. Such a decontextualized framing is worse than useless and does the empire’s dirty work in water-muddying.
Ian Welsh
Ah yes, let’s pretend the second Chechen war didn’t happen, and grade Putin on a curve with Israel and America. And ignore evidence that he may have bombed his own people.
There are degrees of evil. It is possible to be more evil or less evil than other people. You will notice that I said that while the MSM lied in the past it seemed to lie less, for example.
Putin has become better over time, I’m happy to grant that. But mass murder and torture aren’t crimes you come back from easily.
https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/vladimir-putin-1999-russian-apartment-house-bombings-was-putin-responsible
Being less evil than Bush or Trump or Biden isn’t much an accomplshment.
cc
@Feral Finster, thanks for the link to the Caitlin Johnstone article.
From that article: “an Israel-based company called Generative AI for Good has been creating deepfakes of supposedly real women who say they were sexually assaulted by government forces in Iran.”
The sheer chutzpah or gall of deceptively naming such a company “Generative AI for Good” makes me think of the brands put out by the pro-Israel Zionist billionaire Resnick family of California.
https://yasha.substack.com/p/california-pistachio-billionaires
“Based on tax records from their foundation, they’ve given anywhere from $500,000 to $200,000 to the Israeli military every year, with most of it funneled through an outfit called the American Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces.1 Adding it all up comes to millions of dollars – $2.4 million just between 2015 and 2022.”
They brand themselves the “Wonderful Company” and sell pistachios and almonds under the brand name “Wonderful” and mandarins under the brand name “Halo”. They previously also had the brand “Cuties” but apparently sold that. What’s next, “Innocent”, “Angelic”, “Saintly”?
Along the same lines, the Israeli military, which this family has funded to the tune of millions of dollars, brands itself as “IDF” as if their actions are in anyway “defensive”. They are offensive actions, on lands they have stolen, and occupied for decades, and are actively ethnically-cleansing via apartheid, settler “violence” (terrorism), and genocide.
As “The Voice of Hind Rajab” shows, they kill cuties, and many American and other foreign doctors have pointed out the pattern of multiple (deliberate) sniper shots, by the “IDF”, into the bodies and heads of young children in Gaza.
Boycott their products: “Wonderful”, “Halo”, Fiji water, POM juice. And boycott “Generative AI for Good”.
mago
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Sailing, don’t know where I’m going. . .
Up up and away in my yellow balloon
Don’t you let nobody get you down/turn you round/keep on walking, keep on talking/baby til the cows come home.
Keep on walking keep on talking and let’s give a big hand to the Green Hornet. No, wait (checks notes) The Get Down Left Hand Mixitup Jug Band.
Live from Miami, please welcome. . .
shagggz
@Ian: As your linked article notes, the apartment-bombing FSB op would’ve had to precede Putin’s rise to power. Exposing it as such would’ve radically threatened the public’s view of state legitimacy, at a time when Russia was still relatively weak and fending off the empire’s attempts to stoke exactly this sort of disunity.
With this in mind, I could see the argument that indulging Putin’s famed legalistic diligence would’ve been against the national interest on balance. If his role in such a pivotal event was more than a backseat one, we’d expect to see this mindset of callous disregard for compatriots’ wellbeing pervade his subsequent rule, no? But quite to the contrary, he has gone out of his way to preserve their wellbeing, as you and many others here have correctly pointed out.
So, even though there are “degrees of evil” as you say, and we could argue that complicity in such an op is evil even after the fact, to boil the binary question of his evil down to “yes,” in light of all the geopolitical context I’ve tried to emphasize, is itself more evil than not, I would argue.
Mark Level
One minor correction to my post yesterday here– So a bit after posting I was listening to Nima and John Helmer, Helmer corrected one pre-arranged Lie about the “Liberal, Insane Left Shooter”, there never was more than one shotgun that he carried in, under his jacket there were no 2 extra guns and 2 or 3 sets of knives. Absurd on the face of it!! Also he tweeted out words to the effect that “I’m a fascist assassin” 2-3 minutes before entering the hotel, had booked a room months prior.
Good comments mostly above, Feral Finster Gotcha’d me once on this site earlier when I mentioned the Moscow bombing and Putin, timeline off, shaggz caught this too. The overall point that Putin is Lesser Evil I of course agree with, but that’s a low bar too. What he is that OUR “leaders” are not includes calculating, strategic, patient, mature, cautious (even his CIA Profile notes) and legalistic, and I probably missed several more. And he is so far above the preening Highest Paid Actor in the World, the Green Goblin, but never the twain shall meet, he’s up in the stratosphere while li’l Zelensky is burrowing into the firmament like Marvel’s Moleman.
More to say a day after the kerfluffle over the “assasination” Op. So listened to some Amy Goodman, and NPR later on, and the Trump people (not DJT himself) are smart enough to put out 2, contradictory Narratives in a series. 1st Melania joined Donny in putting out a speech or Tweet that nobody should accept “political violence” (no mention of ICE of course) and dividing ‘Muricans against each other. A sentiment with which even Stephen Colbert could agree.
Next, this fake murder attempt was 100% the fault of The Radical Left, implying we need to round the Democrats (who won’t allow a single Actual Leftist in the Party; even Ro Khanna cheered the beginning of the USrael Sneak Attack. He isn’t stupid, nor do I believe though he is ethnically Indian that he is Islamophobic.) Jail or Kill those who threaten the Healer God Emperor!!
Oh, and 2 prominent Admin Members have disappeared from sight like Stalin’s former friends from historical pictures: Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard has betrayed 100% of her former messages, was always a Psy-Op, was in a Psy-Op Unit. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who the Neocon Israel First Nuts want to be the next nominee, above JD Vance.