Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo on NPR’s “Here and Now” this morning about Trump supporters abandoning him over last week’s US missile attack on Syria.
Listen here:
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/04/13/far-right-trump-syria
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Well, I have to say, well done Justin!
And although your ideas were already presented in writing, you express them better vocally.
If you have truly come back from the darkside and are determined to not go back then I would like to support you further by once again being permitted to voice opinions on your editorials.
But if I can’t then I’m going to nitpick everything you say because the censoring speaks loudest. You can either take the heat in a responsible way or you can continue to cover your ass in fear of the truth.
luv from Canada.
He blocked me on twitter as well. Too me he lost credibility already.
Raimondo doesn’t block people but he would certainly have the authority to ask for somebody to be unblocked from taking part on his editorials. The one who does the blocking is hiding. Ask Thomas Knapp.
Raimondo is in charge of his own blocking on Twitter. I’m under the impression he blocks quite a few people. I’m one of them.
Doesn’t matter to me anymore Thomas, the head cu-t is going to move on me for not paying for posting on this site. We’ll see soon! Actually, it’s not that but that’s her excuse for now.
Seems it’s more than one agenda at work to neutralize anything this site works toward on the antiwar issues at least. Too bad because with Raimondo back from the dark side there was some sanity starting to creep in and the site was building some sensible people to take the place of people like eric and his ilk.
And so what’s the point anyway? If the US moves on Russia and China, there’s nuclear war and then no point. If the US doesn’t move on China and Russia then the future is looking very good because a new cold war won’t go the US way anymore.
Seems to me there’s nothing we can do to help. Anyway, think about what I’ve told you on finding a way with socialism. It’s a shame to waste your talent.
No, people are not banned from commenting here on the basis of contributing or not contributing financially to Antiwar.com.
So hard core socialist countries never go to war? Vietnam/Cambodia, China/VIetnam, USSR in Hungary, and on through Afghanistan. Cuba even “intervened” in Angola.
Your answer to warmongering government is to turn over the entire country to the state and “hope” they won’t go to war when domestic conditions sour.
HUH,, VIETNAM GOING TO WAR… Are you referring to their troubles with China when China abducted the Royal Ballet in 1492…
Or are you talking about when the U.S and the usual suspects started bombing Hanoi after proven false allegains that that Maddox was fired on in the Gulf of Tonkin… ?????
he’s a sook
Justin never comes from the DARKEST SIDE….. Yes it’s not easy to watch sausages being made. But even worse is hearing the squeamish skrech & scream at every hair-pin turn….. This ride with the Trump campaign has been one to make white knuckle obsolete, replaced by knuckled out. As in dead or unconsciousness
So let’s cut to the chase and get to the overwhelming.. question… Should, could, would those of us here who are antiwar support & vote for the only other viable candidate (Hillary Warbucks) running…… when Trump was still Mr.”Let’s get along”…channelling Rodney King….???? The answer is….NO!!! ……. IT would have been a BETRAYAL, just as HEINOUS as the one by Him ENACTING Hillary policy…. Or as the Dems observed, Obama sold out after two months, Trump after two WEEKS to the WAR HAWKS………………………
So don’t blame those of us who supported him when he was JEKLE, and are now slamming down on him NOW after he turns like a snake aND goez FULL HILLARY…. …………….. …………FULL AMERICA LAST………..
……………….FULL NWO………………….
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” the only other viable candidate…”
There were several other choices on many state ballots, as well as the option of not voting at all. These politicians do not have any moral claim on our vote. It is my opinion that no person of good will and common sense could have supported either major party presidential candidate. The current situation we have, with two clearly unacceptable candidates as major party nominees, is the direct result of Americans voting for the lesser of two evils for at least the last hundred years, even if the lesser evil is indistinguishable from Satan.
Nor do we have a ‘duty’ to support the leading candidate, even if that candidate got almost 3 million people less than the other Leading candidate. The resistance would be just as fierce if Hillary had the EC vote. In other news, Pence says no more patience for N Korea. Pence isn’t going to attack anybody.. That’s for Peasants in the working class. The Leisure Class like Pence and Trump never go to war. So far North Korean government hasn’t done anything that was already done by nor whatever sick war crimes were not yet done by “us”.the Elitist U.S. Government including the Pentagon. Mike Punkce and
Donald Chump will stand up proudly, in Washington, and boast of what They Did.
There was a report today from an ‘academic’ who questions to the point of denouncing the Trump narrative about the gas attack. The quotation marks are because they used the word in the headline, like somehow being educated and intelligent somehow makes one inferior. As if being a Human Drone makes one more informed. The guys and now gals in the combatant specialties /MOS classifications don’t have the full scope of strategy or any kind of mental or moral choice in what they do or why they do it. You only get the level of information given by your immediate superiors. That particular designation irks me no end.
If you have ‘superiors’ and especially if you chant those designations like a good soldier, you’re accepting the designation of being their “inferiors”.
That’s the key acknowledged by the War Promoters. They specifically say it would be impossible to fight a war without full unquestioning obedience. They say the reason ‘we’ lost in Vietnam because so many soldiers questioned their orders and didn’t mechanically obey.
The ones who weren’t successfully brainwashed.
That’s the right term too. The U.S. and Britain coined the term but only as it was describing (other) ‘Totalitarian Dictatorships” or Sauce for the Goose isn’t necessarily Sauce for the Gander.
Much like the Crusaders were far superior to Cults like say People’s Temple or Heavens Gate. At least in the Historic Record.
Strange ladies lying in puddles distributing swords is no basis for kingship. True executive authority comes from a mandate by the Masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony…
You have blown your antiwar cover now for all to see. I saw it long time ago, but now if some still think you are genuine — they need to have their iQ examined. This place has become a warren for neocons in antiwar attire. But you cannot hide your glee at the efficiency of the deep state, both their republican and democrat rabid human drones. It is clear to all that followed the support for Trump anti imperial globalist policies — just exactly what happened. Raimondo is at a wrong site, and is nothing more then a token anti-imperial writer. No, he has not been abandoned by Trump supporters. He has been abandoned by those that from day one — while reveling in Republican win — tried to push Trump into their neocon straight jacket. McCain, Graham, Cruz, Bush, Rubio, and other assorted fossils in the party, are delighted that he seem to twist in the wind at the mercy of neocon spider web. Raimondo and others that get it, need to reexamine the value of a fake antiwar agenda, and join real Trump supporters. The intellectual weight and acumen has shifted away from the pretenders — as times require that defending Trump means attacking the deep state and its powers to control and manipulate.
As I said many times before — you are phony antiwar, and have been rejoicing every move by the deep state powerbrokers that hit Trump and his inner circle.
So, now enjoy, but it won’t last. Trump is now your dearest leader, willing to kill — but it is still not enough for your taste. Again, you and plenty of those that descended on this site with your pretend “concerns” and your delirious happiness — enjoy. But the awakening has happened, and the powers that run the country were forced to come out in the open, and have like vampires, been damaged by the exposure to the light.
There is nothing you can do — but ramble as you only know how, as you cannot control your joy over the the deepstate win over the will of American citizens. Now it is clear, and there is no way going back. Your joy will be short lived — as you have nowhere to hide. You have always despised Trump’s foreign policy agenda, spelled out before and after the elections — and watched with anxiety the deep state actors, forced to identify themselves. Your joy mixed with relief — is so obvious, so clearly revealing your stake in the conflict. Sunshine, and more sunshine — that is what is coming, as you will have to continue to defend the indefensible.
Raimondo is wasting his time. Time to focus on what matters.
I would estimate 60-70? of Trump support was from centrist liberal conservatives who are anti-War, anti-Intervention. We didn’t vote FOR Trump as much as we did AGAINST Hillary but we feel we basically got Hillary on steroids minus the TPP. The USA USA USA crowd will apologize for their “god” since they cannot admit he sold his soul Satan at the very least. Possibly a Zionist shill from the get go as I have seen NOTHING but Zionist policies from him in the ME and now Israel has bombed Syria near Damascus. Yes, we DISAVOW this because we do have moral fiber and integrity. I voted for obomber twice and turned on him also when I woke up to his NWO policies. With Trump siding with Luciferians in ME, the whole world has now fallen to evil elite globalism…
“I would estimate 60-70? of Trump support was from centrist liberal conservatives who are anti-War, anti-Intervention.”
So where were these mythical voters in every previous election of the last half-century or so? On vacation in Europe when it was time to vote or something?
You’re right but antiwar people will start coming out of the woodwork if they can ever ben convinced that Trump is treading a little too close to nuclear war. The small amount of rise we are seeing now is likely due to that.
A B-1 whacked out of the air over Syria would do it but it’s risky it would go too far.
Over 80% of Trump supporters support his attack on Syria. The “non interventionist Trump supporter” was mostly a myth, created by people like Raimondo who loved Trump for other reasons.
“created by people like Raimondo who loved Trump for other reasons.”
Raimondo’s support for Trump, I believe, was mostly from Trump’s “audacity” for not being politically correct. Now, not a single, good PC liberal would consider me PC either, but I can see the difference between simply not being PC, and being an outright obnoxious xenophobe. Raimondo sold out the entire anti-war and liberty movements because Trump had the glorious notion that immigrants should be crushed under the boot of the State.
To be fair to Raimondo, I think it was an error in judgement. He probably thought that a President who could stand up to the overwhelming pressure to be politically correct, could stand up to the pressure put on by the neocons as well. I have a slightly different take on things, though. I generally do not trust xenophobes politically, because it seems to me, that the same irrationality on political issues which can give way to xenophobia, can manifest itself as irrationality on other issues, particularly war and peace.
They voted for Gore, Obama, or third party candidates. They would have voted for Clinton this time around except for her support for War and other neoliberal policies (trade deficits and mass immigration). Why do you think Trump won states like Michigan and Wisconsin which haven’t voted Republican for decades.
Or are you drinking the DNC Koolaide that it was all the Nazis who crawled out from under their rocks to vote for the first time.
Voted for O twice…??? Shame on you!
“Fooled you once, shame on him, fooled you twice, shame on you”
The little ditty that Bush coulden’t get right with the world watching…
Nice interview, Justin!
“voters” ? who needs “voters” anymore ?
I would assert that the interviewer probed for truth and clarity. Finding truth these days certainly can be a fight.
Good job. The NPR questioner seemed to be stunned that Justin could really believe that Assad probably didn’t order a Sarin gas attack on his own people. When “liberal” news organizations have become pro war, pro-military strikes, unconcerned with the question of whether such attacks are legal … you know the neocons have achieved their goal. It’s the Justin Rainmondos and contrarian posters against all of the establishment. I will add that it’s nice to see Ann Coulter coming around to “my” views. When it comes to verbal faceoffs, she carries a big and sharp knife.
as predicted, he’s selling out every voter bloc, with no conscience. No surprises. The Chinese aren’t stupid, he’s crowing about an agreement with Beijing, but he knows and they know he’s a sneak attack past master. If you have an occasion to shake his hand, count your fingers when you pull your hand back. Make sure he didn’t steal any.
Eric Who… ???????????????????????????