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ancianita

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72. Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Bush, Pau Wolfowitz, Robert Bork, Milton Friedman... Strange bedfellows?
Wed Sep 20, 2017, 11:42 PM
Sep 2017

Everyone here wants to go for this message because Morgan Freeman has played god in a film??

Think about how most people thought the Russia Internet insurgency was pretty far fetched when it was first brought to public attention.

Now we can find common cause with AEI people who are of the globalist class, right or wrong? Just chuck their pasts while this whole "Russia as enemy" frame plays out?

The more I think about it the more skeptical I get.

"For now" is a common front that right wing tanks hope will get them over.

I can't look at it working "for now."

I have to look at the whole history of right wingers in the AEI think tank parent. Do you remember the groups attacks here of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's association with AEI? I read all her books, and I can assure everyone that she was never an opportunist con.

You can trust this video at face value if you choose.

You say, "for now," but this video's motive, to me, isn't about "saving the country from complete destruction by Trump..."

It's about saving the complete destruction of the austerity globalists' credibility in American politics at all.

Globalists and their congressional henchmen have allied with Russian mafia style capitalism, Kochs and the rest, when they think it has helped them take control of the land base of the West's largest democracy.

You don't think AEI doesn't curry their favor and wealth? I do.

As for Americans in general, now that they've seen the election mess Putin's propaganda machine contributed to, I don't think that most Republicans see Putin's Kremlin as even a potential future American ally. But globalists do. If they can rewrite the history of which "side" they were on, they would, even as they continue to do business with a country hostile to the West.

Today, the AEI knows that Republican Americans have no choice but to doubt the viability of institutions supported by the wealthy Republican class.

The timing of this video shows a newfound fear from that class. Over a year in on the FBI's following the money.

The more I think about who is backing this video -- especially, given the legal, international precedents that this massive criminal investigation on this poser president's posse of Russian colluders (including major GOP players) will establish for future governance in this country -- the more the video reveals to me the wealthy class's concession to the nation's loss of confidence over a major right wing party's credibility as a patriotic American party.

The attendant neonazi noise in America isn't just coincidence, either.

I don't think I'm overthinking this. It wasn't that long ago that the reality we're in now wasn't thought to even be likely.

Putting Morgan Freeman's best god face (and script) before us doesn't make me trust the motives of this advisory board's parent think tank. This advisory board is being paid to prop two party viability after the parent org's beloved GOP is shown before the world to be a dupe of a hostile foreign power.

PR is sophisticated. Celebrities are good people who want to help what they think are good causes. I love Morgan Freeman. But too many times we've seen well meaning celebrities misguidedly 'help' -- just not the way they believe they are. I'm sure AEI knows we trust Morgan Freeman -- no one's more convincing than "god" -- so we'll feel good about the soul of this right wing think tank.

AEI history is bigger than "for now," and so I think this video is sincere, vague, mollifying in its attempt to keep the AEI maintaining globalist trust and endowments in a country that is churning to return its government to its Constitutional, democratic structure, and away from a Russian mafia style corporate one.

When you say, "Once we're rid of this common enemy, we can go back to fighting conservatives on the pressing issues such as single-payer healthcare, women's rights, and climate change, etc." then I realize now just how this globalist war of attrition is played, whether that war exhausts us through the Obamacare war, the neonazi white supremacist war, the war on women, immigrants, fossil v. green energy, or on each other.

I've just decided to not trust or support this untimely, scripted admission of "war." The AEI house is putting its money on pandering, at best; propagandizing, at worst.

Thank you for helping me consider this further. I do understand your hope that this contributes to what's best for us all. I hope that happens.








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I saw this last night and thought it was well done. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #1
Exactly! And a very quick response, too. fierywoman Sep 2017 #36
Thank you Mr. Freeman spanone Sep 2017 #2
Oh my!!! - Putie - having a sad - whammmbulance comin' 'round the cornah.... asiliveandbreathe Sep 2017 #3
RT is attacking this video as well Maven Sep 2017 #4
And ANYONE on RT is in support of Putin over America Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #51
How in the hell can MontanaMama Sep 2017 #59
Kremlin spokesman Peskov is ridiculing Freeman as "emotional" and uninformed. DetlefK Sep 2017 #5
That's bullshit.. Morgan Freeman is quite calm whathehell Sep 2017 #25
I found it on RT's facebook page JustAnotherGen Sep 2017 #30
I wish we didnt have radio personalities who claim to be one of us working for Putin on RT Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #52
Owned Goonch Sep 2017 #6
I. Can't. Stop. Watching. This. FailureToCommunicate Sep 2017 #9
LMAO happy feet Sep 2017 #11
Owned and operated, thanks Goonch saidsimplesimon Sep 2017 #12
+1 uponit7771 Sep 2017 #15
ROFLMAO! SusanaMontana41 Sep 2017 #18
That is super awesome!! Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2017 #73
yes, but is he housebroken? Warren DeMontague Sep 2017 #77
Morgan Freeman is a national treasure. n/t forgotmylogin Sep 2017 #7
+10000000000 logosoco Sep 2017 #19
Damn straight!!! Initech Sep 2017 #41
Agree! MLAA Sep 2017 #76
Amazing peggysue2 Sep 2017 #8
Definite K & R - Share it everywhere! LAS14 Sep 2017 #10
It's no secret Mr. Freeman saidsimplesimon Sep 2017 #13
Hit a nerve did it? FailureToCommunicate Sep 2017 #14
Yeah. I'm not caring for what I see in its background. ancianita Sep 2017 #32
Haha LakeArenal Sep 2017 #16
LakeArenal marieo1 Sep 2017 #49
Putin is just trying to get what he paid for. SusanaMontana41 Sep 2017 #17
The Truth Hurts. STFU Putin et al. iluvtennis Sep 2017 #20
Excellent video. gademocrat7 Sep 2017 #21
i have always loved Morgan Freeman! Not afraid to tell it like it is!!! VaBchTgerLily Sep 2017 #22
happy to k and r niyad Sep 2017 #23
Oh, Putin the snowflake, BadgerMom Sep 2017 #24
Russia is only partly right. lark Sep 2017 #26
i believe anythng Mr Morgan says! samnsara Sep 2017 #27
Isnt that Michael Moores project? samnsara Sep 2017 #28
Rob Reiner . . . fleur-de-lisa Sep 2017 #42
What a joke HarmonyRockets Sep 2017 #57
Wait. These are neocon war hawks leftstreet Sep 2017 #63
The man was GOD and the POTUS MFM008 Sep 2017 #29
Jim Carrey says two thumbs up!! n/t KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #39
I can't find anything on The Committee To Investigate Russia. This looks like an AEI project. ancianita Sep 2017 #31
I'm a bit of a "doubting Thomas" myself, but I think this is okay for now. VOX Sep 2017 #71
Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Bush, Pau Wolfowitz, Robert Bork, Milton Friedman... Strange bedfellows? ancianita Sep 2017 #72
the russian-republican cabal is, of course, calling more... Achilleaze Sep 2017 #33
Great ad, thank you Mr. Freeman. dae Sep 2017 #34
Personal Trainer Goonch Sep 2017 #35
Putin is scared by the likes of Morgan Freeman? DFW Sep 2017 #37
K&R Scurrilous Sep 2017 #38
The more they tell people not to watch it, the more it's going to get watched! NBachers Sep 2017 #40
Just did my bit by helping to further circulate. Enoki33 Sep 2017 #44
This tells me that he's hitting a nerve, good! arthritisR_US Sep 2017 #43
Yes Morgan you are correct madokie Sep 2017 #45
KremlinGOP both are really the same nowadays. One speaks for the other rockfordfile Sep 2017 #46
They're dissing Freeman? eleny Sep 2017 #47
Morgan Freeman marieo1 Sep 2017 #48
Next Morgan Freeman movie: "Moscow Has Fallen" with Gerard Butler. NBachers Sep 2017 #50
Sounds like a nerve got struck leftofcool Sep 2017 #53
Go Morgan!! applegrove Sep 2017 #54
50 million Americans who WERE fans of Morgan, now are not, he went one step too far Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #55
Great News! Any publicity/attention piques curiosity. Freethinker65 Sep 2017 #56
Wow, I'd be scared shitless if I were Kremlin too ... Very convincing vid uponit7771 Sep 2017 #58
Joe Madison had Rob Reiner & David Frum on his Tuesday show BumRushDaShow Sep 2017 #60
It doesn't get much better than Morgan Freeman. Think I'll check out that committee. blueinredohio Sep 2017 #61
K & R malaise Sep 2017 #62
I love the video from Morgan Freeman Gothmog Sep 2017 #64
They shouldn't mess with god... all american girl Sep 2017 #65
Kick dalton99a Sep 2017 #66
You know you're on the right track paleotn Sep 2017 #67
Good. This will bring more attention to the video. SunSeeker Sep 2017 #68
Hmmm........ bdamomma Sep 2017 #69
Morgan Freeman is the Voice of the Soul of America. byronius Sep 2017 #70
At this point in time blue-wave Sep 2017 #74
Trump's Puto's puppet, he ain't moving against him. No way! oasis Sep 2017 #75
Way to go Morgan! You hit a nerve! Nitram Sep 2017 #78
Good... That's how we know they're shook Blue_Tires Sep 2017 #79
the quickest way to get an American to do something charlyvi Sep 2017 #80
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