How To Spot A Sell-Out
Don’t waste your vote on sell-outs. There’s enough evil in the world already.
How To Spot A Sell-Out
by C.A. Matthews
I have never trusted AOC. I never once thought she was a “progressive” or even “honest” in a Demon-erratic Party sort of way. So, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actively promoting a pro-genocide/pro-war/anti-worker candidate and smearing a decent anti-genocide/anti-war/pro-worker candidate in a recent video doesn’t surprised me one bit.
I can spot a sell-out from a mile away. What do I mean by a “sell-out”? I’ll post some photos to help explain what I mean.
Above is a photo of AOC promoting a Green Party candidate in 2017. Yes, AOC actually helped the Greens, although in her recent tirade smearing Dr. Jill Stein she doesn’t seem to acknowledge how much she truly owes the Green Party for her political success. AOC and the Dems stole the “Green New Deal” from former Green presidential candidate Howie Hawkins who first verbalized it when he ran for governor of New York back in 2010. There’s even a video from C-Span from back in the day that proves the Green Party US created the Green New Deal that Dems later stole and watered down (and then totally forgot about).
With voters growing evermore dissatisfied with Harris and her ardent support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, we are witnessing an increasing number of smears of anti-genocide candidates. Recently AOC was caught outright lying in a ratioed video about “how the Greens do nothing.” Really? This is what I have to say to her:
“Ah, Sweetie! You know that’s not true. You once canvassed for a Green candidate. Then you cold-heartedly switched parties so you and your newfound Dem friends could steal the Green New Deal from the GPUS. You guys were so sure no one would notice it had a similar platform that you didn’t even bother to change its name. Talk about arrogance!”
There are many examples of AOC acting like a sell-out. Here’s another:
AOC likes to wear expensive designer gowns (like the one above) and attend posh events like the Met Gala. This is the same AOC who bragged that she once had worked as a bartender, projecting the image as a “worker who will fight for the rights of fellow workers.” Yeah, right! I wouldn’t dare wear a white satin gown in a bar slinging shots of whiskey. The stains would be difficult to wash out of the silky material.
AOC heartily endorsed Joe Biden earlier this year, the man who prevented railroad workers from striking in late 2022 because of unsafe work conditions. Within months of the railroaders’ denied strike, the East Palestine train derailment and toxic chemical burning happened. AOC, who once claimed she was against fracking and drilling for oil on federal land, now endorses Kamala Harris, the woman who brags that she has always been in favor of fracking even though she was filmed at a DNC debate in 2020 stating that she was against fracking.
AOC has even sold out those poor caged child immigrants she supposedly cried over. Here’s that story: https://twitter.com/anthonyzenkus/status/1834444837145182288
AOC is all about getting her face on the covers of fashion magazines and taking money from political action committees like AIPAC. AOC has never been one of us. She’ll lie and do as her masters tell her to do in order to get ahead in the DNC. AOC is a sell-out.
On to our next sell-out, Kamala Harris.
Maybe Harris isn’t a sell-out in the AOC tradition. I don’t know if Harris ever said that she wouldn’t take millions of dollars from either the MIC or AIPAC (See the meme above and one below for the dollar amounts. Impressive, eh?) I doubt she has ever claimed that she wouldn’t happily do Israel’s bidding. But she has taken their money and says she agrees with Biden’s actions when it comes to supplying arms and funding to Israel to keep their immoral genocide in Gaza—and now the West Bank—going.
Aiding and abetting a genocide—that alone is a very sell-out thing to do. And Harris seems absolutely fine with a foreign power dictating US policy. Should we rename ourselves officially “The United States of Israel” now?
Of course, there’s no truth to Harris’ shallow campaign rhetoric. It’s all just one big nasty joke. There is no “joy” to be found in the genocide of innocents in Gaza and the West Bank. Only psychopaths would find “joy” in the horrible deaths and maiming of children.
Harris is trying her best to convince voters that she’s a “kinder, gentler, genocidaire” who really cares. I’m not buying it. Both she and her boss Genocide Joe had nothing to say about the murder of American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by an IDF sniper in the West Bank for almost a week. They didn’t say a thing until public anger boiled over and reports from the incident site proved Eygi wasn’t a victim of an “accidental shooting” because she was standing with protesters who threw rocks. She was outright murdered after the peaceful protest she had taken part in was long over. But don’t worry—the Israeli military will investigate themselves and exonerate the shooter.
Tears have been shed by the Biden-Harris administration for Israeli rapists and torturers, but none shed for an American peace activist. I guess Eygi’s Turkish heritage was too big a barrier for Biden or Harris to show much empathy? Whoever said an American woman of color couldn’t be prejudiced against another American woman of color from a different ethnicity? Equal opportunity racism—it’s what American sell-outs excel in.
Even after seeing how much the military-industrial complex has given to Harris this election if you should ever doubt her patriotism, there’s a flag-waving, red-white-and-blue commercial to convince you that she’s a warrior at heart. It shows Harris giving a speech where she emphasizes how she would continue to arm Israel and turn the US into a “lethal force” to take on the Soviet Union—uh, I mean Russia!—thus bringing about the possible total annihilation of humanity through nuclear war.
Talk about selling out the entire planet!
Harris is an “empty vessel” many have said. She’s a willing puppet for the oligarchy and their war machine. She’ll sell out everyone in the struggling 99% to please her sadistic owner-operators in the 1%. She’s a sell-out of the worse kind. She has already sold out the lives of innocents in Gaza for her chance at the presidency. What makes you think she wouldn’t sell out you and yours?
Luckily, there’s another woman who isn’t a sell-out running for the White House. I offer her as a comparison so you can see just how much of a sell-out people like AOC and Kamala Harris are.
Jill Stein is constantly smeared and lied about primarily by DNC operatives, yet she continues to speak up for the most vulnerable people on the planet—in particular the innocents being bombed and tortured by the genocidal maniacs of the Israeli Occupation Force. If Dr. Stein had ever wanted to sell out to AIPAC or the MIC like Harris has, she would have taken the money and gone home long ago. But she hasn’t and she won’t.
Greens are a people-powered party. That means they do not accept money from political action committees (PACs) or corporations of any kind. Dr. Stein has said she would outlaw AIPAC as the foreign agent interfering with our country’s elections that it is. This speaks to Palestinian and Muslim American voters who have lost loved ones in Gaza. Dr. Stein actively campaigns with and speaks to these groups of Americans who have long been forgotten by the red and blue candidates.
Jill Stein is an example of a decent, moral human being. Sell-outs aren’t.
And so as to not to be entirely woman-centric here, I now offer some other examples of non-sell-outs. (My avatar is gender neutral, and it’s amazing how many readers mistakenly think I’m male. I must write like a man, huh? Gender is fluid.)
Here are some photos of protesters taking it to the 180th Fighter Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard recently to protest their supplying of F-16 bomber jets to Israel, Ukraine, and others to commit bloodshed around the world in the name of all Americans.
We all have blood on our hands since our tax dollars have paid for the creation and maintenance of these sophisticated, supersonic instruments of death. The 180th Fighter Wing maintains/repairs F-16s for the US Air Force and trains pilots from a base inside Toledo Express Airport, a civilian airport that has very few commercial flights. The horrific noise of the jets landing and taking off can be heard daily over the city, mostly in the poorer areas where yours truly lives, or so it seems.
These protesters will never sell out. They stand—or kneel in front of traffic— for peace and justice. They won’t be intimidated. They won’t back down.
Here is a photo of what these protesters were up against protesting in front of the 180th Fighter Wing’s gates. Yes, that is an M-16 rifle in the serviceman’s hands. Protesting against war and genocide can be dangerous.
These protesters are the epitome of what we should expect in all persons who run for office. Integrity. Honesty. Courage.
Don’t waste your vote on sell-outs. They stand for death, destruction, and genocide. There’s enough evil in the world already. Don’t let their slick flag-waving ads trick you into adding more evil into the world through voting for a “lesser evil candidate”. Vote for the greater good.
Related Articles and Other Interesting Links
Genocide Gentry: members of the ruling class who hold prestigious positions at cultural & educational institutions despite their connections to warfare amidst an ongoing genocide. https://genocidegentry.org/
Israel’s lie about a U.S. activist’s murder has exposed the Biden-Harris double standard on Palestine https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/israels-lie-about-a-u-s-activists-murder-has-exposed-the-biden-harris-double-standard-on-palestine/
Genocide In The Foreground, World War Looming In The Background https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/genocide-in-the-foreground-world
UNRWA Says 6 Workers Among at Least 18 Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza School https://www.commondreams.org/news/unrwa-school-bombed-again
UN head slams Security Council for failure to end Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine wars https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/un-head-slams-security-council-for-failure-to-end-gaza-sudan-ukraine-wars
Palestine Takes Seat at UN General Assembly in ‘Historic First’ https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/12/palestine-takes-seat-at-un-general-assembly-in-historic-first/
The US Empire Can Only Exist In A Continuous State Of Mass Military Violence https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-empire-can-only-exist-in-a
For The New York Times, not all Americans killed in Palestine are equal https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/for-the-new-york-times-not-all-americans-killed-in-palestine-are-equal/
'Calculated Brutality': Israelis Killing a Palestinian Child Every 2 Days in Occupied West Bank https://www.commondreams.org/news/children-killed-west-bank?share_id=8412628
Democrats Don't Care If You Vote For Them And Don't Care If They Lose https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/democrats-dont-care-if-you-vote-for
Democrats Have Decided To Just Ignore American Muslims This Election Cycle https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/democrats-have-decided-to-just-ignore
AOC PANICS After Jill Stein's Breakfast Club Interview. Uhuru Wins! https://www.youtube.com/live/Ow6p9lllonY
NATO countries put their people at risk by escalating with Russia https://antiimperialistnews.substack.com/p/nato-countries-put-their-people-at
Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/11/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community
The Significance of the Kuffiyeh Throughout History and how that Has Changed in Recent Times https://www.arabamerica.com/the-significance-of-the-kuffiyeh-throughout-history-and-how-that-has-changed-in-recent-times/
Anti-war protesters block entrance to 180th Air National Guard Base https://www.toledoblade.com/local/suburbs/2024/09/10/photo-gallery-anti-war-protesters-180th-air-national-guard-base-israel-hamas/stories/20240910135
Protestors block 180th gate https://toledofreepress.com/protestors-block-180th-fw-gate/
They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects. https://theintercept.com/2024/09/13/fbi-protest-terrorism-stop-camp-grayling-michigan/
Revolution is not, ultimately, a political calculation. It is a moral one. It is grounded in a vision of another world, another way of being. It is driven, in the end, by a moral imperative, especially since many of those who begin a revolution do not survive to see its fulfillment. Revolutionaries know that as Immanuel Kant wrote: “If justice perishes, human life on earth has lost its meaning.” And this means that, like Socrates, we must come to a place where it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong. We must at once see and act, and given what it means to see, this will require the surmounting of despair, not by reason, but by faith.
--Chris Hedges from The Cost of Resistance https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-resistance
Israel caught in not one, not two, but three huge lies https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-caught-in-not-one-not-two
The dystopian goals behind the Kamala Harris psyop, & the mass mobilization we need to thwart these goals https://rainershea.substack.com/p/the-dystopian-goals-behind-the-kamala
Stein leads Harris among Muslim voters in several swing states, new analysis finds https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2024-09-09/stein-leads-harris-among-muslim-voters-in-several-swing-states-new-analysis-finds
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein campaigns in Dearborn https://www.detroitnews.com/picture-gallery/media/photo/2024/09/12/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill-stein-campaigns-in-dearborn/75198997007/
Uhuru 3 Trial: FBI Lead Investigator Exposed, Both Sides Close https://popularresistance.org/uhuru-3-trial-fbi-lead-investigator-exposed-both-sides-close/
Oil Oligarchs Are Targeting Greenpeace. We Must Stop Them. https://stevendonziger.substack.com/p/oil-oligarchs-are-targeting-greenpeace
Oglala Sioux Tribe Wins Legal Case Against Powertech Uranium Mine https://popularresistance.org/oglala-sioux-tribe-wins-legal-case-against-powertech-uranium-mine/
The West Is A Dystopian Wasteland Of Moral Degeneracy https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-west-is-a-dystopian-wasteland
Man reportedly lit himself on fire outside Boston’s Israeli consulate to protest Gaza genocide https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/man-reportedly-lit-himself-on-fire-outside-bostons-israeli-consulate-to-protest-gaza-genocide/
A Short Conversation About Politics https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/a-short-conversation-about-politics
Yes, Democrats Win Elections. And Then They Commit Genocide. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/yes-democrats-win-elections-and-then
Musings On The Second Trump Assassination Attempt https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/musings-on-the-second-trump-assassination
In a sold-out political system the vast majority of officeholders are sell-outs and sycophants to the true holders of power -- the corporations and the wealthy.
Initially, I wasn't planning to vote on any races above community and county level but have been impressed with Jill Stein's courage and forthrightness in calling out the evil of our corrupt system. However, I wish the Green Party could pull things together. Several days ago I went to the Wisconsin Green Party website to check out what they were up to and how I might volunteer.
It was a poorly designed page that was difficult to read. But I plowed on. Under the "Events" page there was nothing. I continued exploring the site and began noticing that the few reader comments on the site were three to TEN years old. The comments usually expressed strong support and encouragement of the GP and inquired how they might volunteer.
Knowing full well what would happen, I used the 'Contact' tab and sent a note of support and offered to volunteer. As expected, there has been no response.
Yet more affirmation that the needed change cannot come from the dead n' done American political process. We aren't gonna vote our way of this cess pool.
Chris Hedges released a video yesterday on resistance and drawing from various successful reform and revolutionary movements he lays out things that have worked. As usual, he provides lots of practical guidance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpt28mQQRIw
In the presentation he quotes from Vincet Bevins' new book "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution", which assess what went askew with recent movements like Black Lives Matter and Occupy. I have yet to read it, but have seen several interviews with him and I think he is pointing out obvious steps reformers need to look at. Here's a write up: https://www.amazon.com/If-We-Burn-Protest-Revolution/dp/1541788974/ref=sr_1_1?crid=EC9JN4QZ1YUF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QJG8hQWbReBJFpveqZvzM4aKPAS9gh5wIMOai-YEI3w.22lwYzBasHWh8Z70yrKrFlpjEF0mPal8NKjWUfZWifQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=vincent+bevins+if+we+burn&qid=1726549818&sprefix=vincent+bevi%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-1
Hard agree on AOC. She may well have started out as a "progressive" but I doubt she's ever had the personal integrity needed to be an actual leftist.
Hard DISagree on Harris. She's no sellout. She's a product and a logical conclusion of the democrat political machine--complete with all the nepotism, corruption, and inside baseball needed to succeed therein. Having zero core values, principles, or morality (at least as seen in her public life), Harris has nothing TO sell out.