{"id":57976,"date":"2021-05-22T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57976"},"modified":"2021-05-22T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:46:07","slug":"us-presidents-are-always-evil-because-the-us-empire-is-evil-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57976","title":{"rendered":"US Presidents Are Always Evil Because The US Empire Is Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/05\/21\/us-presidents-are-always-evil-because-the-us-empire-is-evil-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">US Presidents Are Always Evil Because The US Empire Is Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9939\" class=\"post-9939 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-empire tag-gaza tag-israel tag-narrative-matrix tag-palestine tag-politics tag-presidents tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-8.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-8.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-8.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-8.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-8.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-8.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/us-presidents-are-always-evil-because-the-us-empire-is-evil\"><em>Listen to this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1052852974&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden is a corrupt, murderous empire lackey. He is also a very normal US president. The same was true of Trump. The same was true of Obama. The same was true of Bush. If you can\u2019t see this, it\u2019s because propaganda and partisan politics have warped your perception of reality.\u00a0US presidents will always be evil because the US empire is evil and only evil people will be allowed to participate in its operation.<\/p>\n<p>By far the single most important job of a US president is to take responsibility for decisions on empire management that would have been made regardless of who is in office, whether Democrat or Republican or tuna fish sandwich. Their job is to provide the illusion of democracy, letting you feel as though you \u201cvoted out\u201d the perceived perpetrators of various misdeeds while leaving the actual power structure responsible for those misdeeds fully intact.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like rectifying a corporation\u2019s misdeeds by firing the secretary. They just rotate in a new secretary every few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is born supporting nonstop military expansionism and regime change interventionism. It takes a lot of education to make us this stupid.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always hilarious how the US pretends its \u201cunwavering support\u201d for Israel is some kind of principled stance based on morals and not the need to have a nuclear-armed military enforcer in the most resource-rich region on earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Anti-semitic this, anti-semitic that. Hey, maybe supporters of a brutal apartheid ethnostate shouldn\u2019t be the authorities that people look to on what constitutes religious bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Opposing Israeli war crimes is anti-semitic. Opposing US imperialism is sexist. Opposing starvation sanctions is homophobic. Opposing proxy wars is misgendering. Opposing nuclear brinkmanship is kink shaming.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Presidents Are Always Evil Because The US Empire Is Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to this article: \u2756 Joe Biden is a corrupt, murderous empire lackey. He is also a very normal US president. The same was true of Trump. The same was true of Obama. 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