If you’re going to claim 500 attendees, don’t run pictures that show about 150.

But all in all, a better turnout than I expected.

My beautiful wife Angela Byrnes for Coroner was the only coroner candidate there!

I can’t wait for the debates!

Trump finally succumbed to the War Party (made up of both ‘Democrats’ and ‘Republicans’. Two wings of the same bird of prey.

Fortunately the Iranians will thwart the Deep State rats. By doing nothing.

Does it bother anyone that the rotten likes of Clapper, Bolton, Gates and Brennan now praise Trump?
And you can better the traitor McCain would join them if he was still plaging us.

What fools ye be.

The worst enemies of this Country cannot be found in Teheran, the Kremlin, Havana, or even in Peking.

They are right here.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-cia-chief-brennan-outspoken-trump-critic-praises-iran-decision-i-applaud-him/

Daily Herald is saying over 350.

Trump supporters…lying about crowd size? He’s impeached!

It is truly amazing how many densely stupid people there are in this country. I have fed chickens with a higher IQ than the haters that simply want to spout off their indoctrinated hatred and enhance their own quick demise. These people pictured are the ones that are trying to save you from your own ignorant self!

Good point made by Jim at 3:04 AM. A snap shot of crowd size at any instant in time over the two-hour rally could not have possibly accounted for the TOTAL amount of individuals who showed up. Apparently many people came at various times, stayed for a while and then left.

Nonetheless, rallies with Trump the main speaker are held in huge venues and most always are filled and with many people lined up outside the venue who could not in.

No report of thugs representing Democrats and liberals that went there. They wear masks and try to beat up Trump supporters. This happened before a rally that Trump was going to attend in 2016 at UIC in Chicago. The thugs were so violent that Trump people cancelled the rally and Trump did not attend.

The local newspaper reported this morning that there were 4 or 5 counter protesters across the street including the resident pest on this blog.

Cindy, you are a fool if you think Trump hasn’t changed his flag and these people pictured are led astray.

Yes, the leftists are dangerous socialists, but this is the wrong thing to rally around.

Why did Trump refuse, on at least 4 prior occasions, to assassinate Soleimani, if he was so damned ‘dangerous’.

This is the trip wire for a war.

Trump ran AGAINST dumbass wars of Hillary, Cruz, Jeb, et. That’s why I voted for him.

A GOP coup of 15 or so traitor Senators said they would pitch in with the Socialists Dems to impeach and replace with the Deep State’s Pence if trump didn’t murder Soleimani now.

These powder patriots above have been played.

Didn’t anybody learn a damn thing about Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?

All this while the wall still ain’t built.

I voted for Isolationist Trump not Interventionist Trump.

Are living in “1984” War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, “I executed Soleimani to stop a war”

Wake up Fools!

IMHO these folks should be protesting:

1) the LGBT agenda;

2) the tommyrot being taught in their tax supported schools

3) Underwood/Carsten

4) Madiganistan

5) Sanctuary State status

6) Acosta/Sager/Franks

7) Sky High Property Taxes

Instead they dance around a funeral pyre of the GOP in November, after the backlash caused by entry into another no-win forever war, $4.50 a gallon gas prices, and a 40% plunge in the DOW.

Don’t think it can’t or won’t happen, Trump may have cooked his own goose with this. I can tell you this, I’ll be voting for the Constiutional Party candidate, NOT Trump like I did last time.

Nice going Trump: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/05/iraqi-parliament-votes-expel-all-american-troops-and-submit-un-complaint-against-us

Continued from above ……

Likewise, even its most advanced medium range cruise missile (Soumar) can barely get to Rome, Italy, to say nothing of Rome, Georgia.

Stated differently, Iran’s extremely modest military capacities are not remotely about an offensive threat to the American homeland. They are overwhelmingly about defending itself in its own neighborhood, where Washington has been intervening and occupying with massive firepower and hostile intent for decades.

More than 13 years after Saddam’s last hurrah on a Baghdad gallows, the US still has upwards of 30,000 troops and contractors in the immediate vicinity of the Persian Gulf. But why?

It can’t be owing to ISIS. The Islamic State was never much more than a no count salient of dusty, woebegone towns and villages on the Upper Euphrates straddling Western Iraq and northeastern Syria that was destined to collapse on its own barbaric madness anyway; and which was essentially dispatched by the Russian air force, Assad’s military and the Shiite militia forces organized by the dead man himself, Major General Soleimani.

Likewise, it should be obvious by now that it’s not the oil, either. At the moment the US is producing nearly 13 million barrels per day and is the world’s leading oil producer – well ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia; and is now actually a net exporter of crude for the first time in three-quarters of a century.

Besides, the Fifth Fleet has never been the solution to oil security. The cure for high prices is high prices – as the great US shale oil and Canadian heavy oil booms so cogently demonstrate, among others.

And the route to global oil industry stability is peaceful commerce because virtually every regime – regardless of politics and ideology – needs all the oil revenue it can muster to fund its own rule and keep its population reasonably pacified.

Surely, there is no better case for the latter than that of Iran itself – with an economy burdened by decades of war, sanctions and mis-rule and an 80-million population that aspires to a western standard of living.

So left to its own devices, Tehran would produce 5 million barrels per day from its abundant reserves. That’s barely one-tenth of its present meager output, which is owing to Washington’s vicious sanctions against any and all customers for its oil and potential investors in modernizing and expanding it production capacity.

So if it’s not ISIS or oil, exactly why does Washington maintain the circle of 35 bases displayed in the graphic above and keep thousands of US troops and other personnel in harms’ way in the region?

Or more to the moment, why has the Donald been unable to bring the forces home as he has so often proclaimed to be his policy?

The answer, of course, is that the foreign policy apparatus of the US government is controlled by anti-Iran neocons and regime changers… and, of course, a large cadre of Israeli agents, like the Obama-freed traitor Jonathan Pollard. We are still in Syria not to fight ISIS, which is gone, but to block Iran’s land route to its allies in Syria and Lebanon (Hezbollah); and we remain in Iraq solely to use it as a base for clandestine US and Israeli attacks on these allies and proxy forces.

These Washington instigated or conducted attacks on Iranian allies, in fact, are why there was growing pressure in the Iraqi government to demand that the US finally leave. These pressures will now become overwhelming in light of this week’s US bombing of five PMF camps (Popular Mobilization Forces) which are Shiite militias that have been integrated into the Iraqi army and which are under the command of its prime minister, and last night’s assassination of their Deputy Commander along with Soleimani.

To be sure, Iran’s choice of allies has nothing to do with America’s homeland security: None of the sovereign governments of Lebanon (where Hezbollah is the leading political party) or Syria or even Iraq (which is an ostensible US ally) have protested these confession (i.e. Shiite) based arrangements and the aid and benefits which flow from them.

That’s because the so-called Shiite crescent is a bogeyman invented by Bibi Netanyahu and is the excuse for his hysterical anti-Iranian foreign policy. The latter is not even designed to enhance Israel’s own security, but to vilify a “far enemy” that can keep his rightwing coalition glued together and himself in power.

Likewise, the US military-industrial complex’s greed and appetite for power and pelf is so voracious that it will embrace any and all missions anywhere on the planet – no matter how stupid or futile or immoral, as per the case of 19-years in Afghanistan – that keep the budgetary loot flowing.

Accordingly, the Washington apparatus conspires to keep the 35 Mideast bases in place and to trigger actions like last night’s insane assassination of Iran’s foremost military leader in order to reify the threat and to periodically stoke tensions and counterattacks that keep missions alive and the forces deployed.

Indeed, we are hard-pressed to imagine a more poignant case of the pot calling the kettle black than Washington’s claim that it had to retaliate owing to actual and expected Iranian “aggression”.

For crying out loud, Washington has been demonizing, ostracizing and economically attacking Iran for decades, and is now literally attempting to destroy its economy and society through is oil sanctions and its “maximum pressure” campaign that aims to bring the fate of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi to its top leaders in Tehran.

So do ya think a regime under a veritable existential threat might gravitate toward retaliation as an alternative to extinction?

And we needs be clear about the matter of striking back in self defense. Washington’s current sanctions campaign against Iran is so aggressive and brutal that it constitutes war by any other name.

When you surround a sovereign nation with an armada of land, sea and air-based high-tech lethality and than declare outright economic war on it with a barely-disguised aim of regime change, it must and will fight back however it can.

That’s why Secretary of State Pompeo’s statement justifying the Donald’s act of naked aggression is so hideous.

Washington is putting the entire nation of Iran at risk in the very place where God or evolution, as the case may be, formed the peninsula on which it resides; and it is doing so without any Iranian provocation against the security of the American homeland whatsoever.

But this neocon knucklehead has the gall to insist that when it comes to the actual anti-Iranian belligerents (i.e. U.S. forces) Washington has bivouacked where they have no business being at all, that not a hair on their head should come to harm.

That’s Imperial arrogance of a kind rarely seen in a world history which is littered with exactly that.

“I can’t talk too much about the nature of the threats. But the American people should know that the President’s decision to remove Soleimani from the battlefield saved American lives,” Pompeo told CNN.

The IRGC general had been “actively plotting” in the region to “take big action, as he described it, that would have put hundreds of lives at risk,” according to Pompeo.

Undoubtedly, things will now spiral out of control because the Iranian regime must and will retaliate for Soleimani’s death. Indeed, by vaporizing the latter, the Donald has now also vaporized any chance of actually implementing the “America First” policy upon which he ran, and which was the principal basis for his freakish elevation to the Oval Office.

The fact is, the only decent thing Obama did on the foreign policy front was the Iran Nuke Deal. Under the latter, Iran gave up a nuclear weapons capability it never had or wanted for the return of billions of escrowed dollars (which belong to Tehran in the first place), while putting itself in a straight-jacket of international inspections and controls that even Houdini could not have broken free from.

But the Donald wantonly shit-canned this arrangement, not because Iran violated either the letter or spirit of the deal, but because the neocons – led by his bubble-headed son-in-law and Bibi Netanyahu errand boy, Jared Kushner – blatantly lied to him about its alleged defects.

Indeed, the resulting Washington pivot to the current “maximum pressure” aggression against Iran is fast becoming the Empire most demented and shameful hour – even as it crystalizes like rarely before the difference between homeland defense and imperial aggression.

Under the former, not one American serviceman, contractor or civilian official would be in harms’ way because the ring of hostile bases surrounding Iran would not exist nor would Washington be waging economic warfare on what would otherwise be a prosperous 5 million barrel per day oil trade with the world.

Only empires put their citizens needlessly in harms’ way and thereby trap their leader’s into a cycle of violence which feeds upon itself.

The Donald is now yet another American president ensnared in the kind of tit-for-tat trap that is the modus operandi of Empire First.

I can’t support Trump on this assassination.

Yes, it’s an assassination.

Pompeo called it an execution.

Really?

Just semantics.

What “Court” ordered it?

When President Biden assassinates a Hungarian general because he’s a ‘racist who won’t allow refugees into Hungary’ or President Buttiegeig assassinates the President of Uganda ‘for enforcing laws outlawing homosexuality, and hurting people who only love’ I suppose that will be grand, too.

Trump should be ashamed of himself!!!!

Dinah? I said NOTHING about Trump. I said these people pictured! Do you not know how to discern people of good character when you see them? You are the fool for taking someone’s remarks and putting them into some fantasy scenario of your own making.

Whalen? You too are totally missing the point here. You are also blinded by your need to argue politics. You have no ability to promote or stop ANY war period, but we most certainly are fighting evil. The war with evil was not in our choosing, either. It might be to your advantage to take notes on which side you want to stand with.

MICHAEL REIN (for Coroner) is actually a Doctor.

Saturday mornings are busy for patients that work, just like he does.

I propose a new rally for all our democratic supporters.

We all gather at a local drinking establishment for the next democratic debate and every time someone mentions a free government program you drink someone else’s beer.

I was thinking to complement Father Time on the best-written I’ve ever seen on this blog.

As I read on, though, I thought it’s too good to be true. He plagiarized it from:
https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2020/01/03/the-donald-is-now-america-firsts-own-assassin/

Plagiarism is not cool.

Kevin Byrnes Algonquin 2, So a candidate for County Coroner’s husband thinks we should vote for his wife because he thinks she’s ‘beautiful’ and because she’s the only candidate in her race that showed up to a street protest for Trump?

Got it.

Thank you for posting all of these pictures!

This blog does a great job of bringing the GOP racists to light by providing photos from these types of events!