Cedric's Big Mix: 2021-02-28

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CANCEL CULTURE HAS SET ITS SIGHTS ON . . . DR. SEUS. REACHED FOR COMMENT, CHANNING DUNGEY ANSWERED HER PHONE, "CHANNING DUNGEY, PRESIDENT OF WARNER BROS. TV AND PIZZA HUT WORKER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY OUR $10 TASTEMAKER WITH 3 TOPPINGS?" AFTER WE EXPLAINED THAT THERE WAS A MOVE TO CANCEL DR. SEUS AND THAT, NO, WE DIDN'T WANT TO ORDER WINGS OR PIZZA, CHANNING EXPLAINED TO US THAT "I AM FIRMLY OPPOSED TO ALL EFFORTS BY WARNER ANIMATION TO MAKE MORE DR. SEUSS CARTOONS. I FEEL THAT GREEN EGGS AND HAM HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SEXUAL INNUENDO AND THAT THOSE AND RACISM -- LOOK AT THE GRINCH AND HIS GREEN SKIN -- MEAN WE MUST RESIST, WE MUST RESIST, WE MUST RESIST . . ."

BEGGING OFF HER IN MID-CHANT, WE PICKED UP THE PHONE TO FIND THAT DYLAN FARROW WAS ON THE PHONE EXPLAINING THAT WHEN SHE WAS 6, SHE WAS LEFT ALONE IN AN ATTIC WITH A PICTURE BOOK OF "FOX IN SOCKS" AND IT TRAUMATIZED HER. "I AM PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT MY MOTHER AND I INSIST HAPPENED IN THE ATTIC WITH DR. SEUS. IT WASN'T PRETTY AND, TO THIS DAY, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY JUDY BLUME WON'T STAND UP FOR ME."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

As noted in Friday's snapshot, US President Joe Biden bombed Syria last week because of . . . alleged Iranian involvement in Iraq. Caitlin Johnstone observes:

So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on “US locations” in Iraq, another nation the US invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were “Iranian-linked”, a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation.

This is Defense Department stenography. The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor. It’s the people trying to eject them who are acting defensively. The deaths of US troops and contractors in those countries can only be blamed on the powerful people who sent them there.

The US is just taking it as a given that it has de facto jurisdiction over the nations of Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and that any attempt to interfere in its authority in the region is an unprovoked attack which must be defended against. This is completely backwards and illegitimate. Only through the most perversely warped American supremacist reality tunnels can it look valid to dictate the affairs of sovereign nations on the other side of the planet and respond with violence if anyone in those nations tries to eject them.

Joe's act of war is treated as a shrug by the MSM. Don't look, don't critique, just smile and watch TV.

Sarah Abdallah Tweets:

U.S. military bases worldwide.

Remember this the next time the United States bombs a sovereign country and claims “self-defense”.

2:21 PM · Feb 28, 2021

Bill Van Auken (WSWS) notes:

With a deadly missile strike against an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia position on the Syria-Iraq border Friday, the Biden administration has spelled out in blood the real meaning of the Democratic president’s incessant declarations that “America is back.”

The attack, executed in blatant violation of international law and with no legal authorization from the US Congress, signals that the Biden White House is embarking upon a highly aggressive American foreign policy, escalating the militarism and confrontations pursued by its predecessor, in the Middle East and internationally.

According to Syrian medical sources quoted by Reuters, the US air raid, carried out at dawn on Friday, killed at least 17 Iraqi militiamen. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the strike had killed 22 fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Forces, an official arm of Iraq’s military, which was sent into Syria to combat ISIS. More fighters were wounded, and the death toll is likely to rise.

Ostensibly, the missile strike was in retaliation for a February 15 rocket attack on a US base in Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital Erbil that killed a single Syrian contractor. There is no evidence that the attack on the US base was the work of the Iranian-backed militia that the US struck on Friday, which had not only denied responsibility, but denounced the attack on the Erbil base.

Pentagon officials indicated that President Joe Biden was given a menu of targets and levels of US military destruction to choose from and signed off on the Syria missile strike.

Asked on Friday what “message” Biden was sending with the strike, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told MSNBC television news, “The message is clear and unambiguous; we’re going to protect our national interests in the region.”

At INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE, The Saker argues:

If you voted for the Dems, then
This act of international aggression, and all those which will now follow, are on YOU!
Yes, you. There is simply *no way* that you could argue that “oh I did not know” or “but, but, Biden promised to be a good president“. Sorry, because for the past 4 years thousands of us have been trying to warn you, to explain to you in detail what would happen if the Neocons fully took control of the USA. We predicted it all, we gave you all the evidence, but you refused to listen. Now it is too late.
And while it is true that Biden did steal the election, those who truly and legally voted for him now bear the moral responsibility for this crime and all the future crime of the Biden Administration.
Only those who did not vote for the Dems can still say “not in my name”.
All others are now accomplices (before, during and after the fact) to the crime of aggression. They are also to blame for the internal chaos which will result from having a the first “Woke Administration”.
All the innocent blood is on you, Biden voter.

That's The Saker's viewpoint. It's not my viewpoint. I didn't spend the last four years yelling at those who voted for Donald Trump. It's easy to scream and attack voters, I'm not sure how productive it is but I know it's not it's not reality. I didn't vote for Joe Biden -- due to the Iraq War and due to Tara Reade and so much more. But many voted for him with the best of intentions. Joe's failure to live up to the trust some people put in him falls on Joe and not on the voters.

INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE reports:

Syria condemned in the strongest terms the US attack in eastern Syria that killed at least 17 people yesterday, stressing it demonstrates the aggressive policies by the new American administration.

Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said in a statement that “In a flagrant violation of the rules of international law and Charter of the United Nations, the US warplanes on Thursday, February 25, 2021, launched a cowardly aggression by bombing some areas in Deir Ezzor province near the Syrian-Iraqi borders.
Foreign Ministry stated that this blatant aggression is a new chain in the series of repeated attacks by the Israeli occupation forces, the so-called “international coalition,” the Turkish occupation, and the crimes of armed terrorist organizations against the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic under illusive pretexts.

” The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the US aggression against its sovereignty, which contradicts with the terms of international law and the United Nations Charter and with its role as a permanent member of the Security Council,” the statement said.

Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Cancel Dr. Seus! Or at least pull his medical license!

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