Still Raging Against the War Machine
Clips from today's rally
Today was the 2nd (now annual?) Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington DC. I spent the day watching and making these video highlights — hope you enjoy!
From literally the opening sentence of Keith Knight’s opening speech, you knew this wasn’t going to be your typical gathering in DC:
OH! So it’s gonna be one of THOSE kind of parties, is it? All right, I’m here for it.
Next up was GWoT veteran Dan McKnight, who reminded the audience that in American’s Constitutional system, the states are supposed to be the ones with the real power:
Political commentator Garland Nixon came to the rally as a historical anti-war, anti-establishment leftie. Here, he offers his perspective of the today’s pro-war left.
Dan McAdams sat down with Clint Russell and Josie the Redheaded Libertarian for an open discussion. Here, McAdams and Russell discuss war and inflation:
And here, McAdams answers Josie’s question regarding the 10th Amendment and explains why local government might not always be better:
Former presidential candidate Aaron Day notes that the real battle isn’t exactly drawn down international borders — while also getting in a jab at President Trump…….
Journalist Ian Caroll used his time to talk about the “new face” of war — sometimes referred to as “5th gen warfare” (as Robert Malone likes to say).
He could have left out the bit about the cat videos, but the point is well taken.
Julian Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton spoke about his brother’s vision for Wikileaks and talks about the importance of source documents. (I feel like this was a standard view of journalists in the past, right?)
This is why I’m always trying to read — and provide for you — source documents in relevant cases.
Jose Vega took the stage and reminded the audience that being right is more important that being in the majority:
Co-host of the event Nick Brana explains how war is the excuse used to undermine our Constitutional freedoms:
But our American history is actually quite anti-war, notes David Benner:
Dan McAdams returned for a solo speech and recounted his time protesting the Iraq war from the right:
His remarks about the “peace candidate” are spot-on.
Russell Dobular discusses our need to be ruled — and notes that the country seems to be without a president….and running exactly the same as when we HAD a president.
Diane Sare — Senate candidate from New York — discussed the history of Lyndon LaRouche, drawing obvious parallels to what’s happening in America today:
When Eric Brakey took the stage, he asked a poignant question:
And in a fitting final video of the day, Ivan Raiklin discusses tomorrow’s Rescue the Republic rally and its diverse list of speakers:
There you have it! My personal highlights of today’s Rage Against the War Machine rally. If you were intrigued by what you saw, check out the entire four-hour rally here!
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Last night, the Royals clinched a postseason berth for the first time since 2015! Here’s a bonus picture from the celebration:
You know, I'm starting to think "journalists doing their job" is like George Washington and the cherry tree, because just as I was gonna write something along the lines of "yeah, they used to..." I stopped short and remembered Walter Duranty and that was 100 years ago.
And during our second Presidential race the papers were going all pee-tape on Jefferson with Dusky Sally, in an era when *everyone* and their sons and nephews were schtupping every lower-status woman they could wrestle the bodice off of, slave or indentured servant or orphan ward.
So maybe we should be rigorously honest. Good journalists have always been rare. The rest serve agendas other than truth, for all sorts of paymasters.
Anyway be sure to take yer vitamins if you're gonna run all over the country like this, doing the job those upper-middle-class twits in our various newspapers of record ain't.
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Holy moley, I'm the first to watch this? Thanks for the distillation. My experiences with people whom I believe were once able to think lead me to believe they would not understand what the fuss is.