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Tubularsock went straight to his crystal-ball and called for the GAS SPIRIT to come-forth and POOOOFF! there she was dripping in salt water.

Impressive, Tubularsock stated.

“GAS SPIRIT tell Tubularsock who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline?”

“IT WAS POSITIVELY NOT RUSSIA!” the GAS SPIRIT said quite quickly.

“Well, just how can you be so sure, oh wise SPIRIT?” was Tubularsock’s retort.

The Gas SPIRIT took three fast steps to the East, turned and stated, “It is as plain as U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken having his head up his ass!”

“This may be true, GAS SPIRIT but Tubularsock needs more PROOF than that”.

“Well here you go then”, the GAS SPIRIT stated as she spread her arms in a revelation gesture.

“Sweden and Denmark are investigating the sabotage which all parties have agreed was perpetrated on the underwater pipeline.

Russia has not been allowed to investigate their own pipeline and yet to date Sweden and Denmark has discovered that there are explosion craters at the destroyed pipe locations.”

“But still who did it is unknown” Tubularsock added.

“So if Russia had done this Sweden and Denmark would have been yelling that information from the top of Mount Olympus at the top of their voices”, the GAS SPIRIT continued.

“But what they have found shows someone else did it, Soooooooo. It is now classified and top secret and in that gesture alone shows that Russia is in the clear”, and at that she sat down very pleased with herself.

That has been the last Tubularsock has seen the GAS SPIRIT but as Tubularsock pursues the elusive gas fumes the fact that the USS Paul Ignatius, a U.S. destroyer, was spotted hovering over the areas where the explosions happened and left the area a short time before they happened make for interesting conjecturing.

And if you take into account that on May 20th “. . . Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III announced that Navy Rear Adm. Thomas E. Ishee for appointment to the grade of vice admiral, and assignment as commander, 6th Fleet.

Thomas Ishee is well versed in underwater fast attack, and he commanded fast attack submarines and oversaw the operations of torpedo retrievers, floating dry dock and the Navy’s submarine rescue systems.(https://www.globalresearch.ca/exclusive-us-torpedo-appeared-explosion-site-nord-stream/5797989)

And you wrap all this up with the fact that the U.S. 6th Fleet were conducting “military exercises” in the Baltic dealing with among other things training an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit and unmanned underwater vehicles.

Move along, nothing to see here.

But for Tubularsock it is clear that once the discovered information was made classified tells it all and to date Tubularsock has heard zilch from Mount Olympus!

It seems just a bit odd ………

How is it that with every mass shooting in the United States of America there is ALWAYS SHOCK which then turns to “our hearts and prayers go out to the victims families” and the political establishment rush out and relay the same old message of “doing something about it”
ONLY TO FALL BACK ASLEEP to be sure that the gun lobby money keeps flowing into their next campaign.

Kind of gives one a suspicion that there is some sort of tried and true plan they are following.
Doesn’t it?

We are a violent society historically. Our country was created by indigenous genocide and we marched across the continent taking other peoples land and fought wars with just about everyone.

Even the Louisiana Purchase, which sounds like a great business deal, was a deal between the U.S. and France. The only issue Tubularsock has with it was the French stole the land themselves.

So, TRUTH BE KNOWN, the Louisiana Purchase was an act of buying stolen property.

Not to mention that the people living in the area were never consulted about THEIR PROPERTY being SOLD.

Big surprise when you wake up in the morning and find out that what you thought was yours ISN’T.

Thank God ……. you don’t have to water the lawn anymore! See, there is always an upside!

So in truth, gun violence is the corner stone of the building of America.

And was enshrined in our Constitution. Even though at the time it was clear that only WHITE MEN would be able wield them.

And our continuous foreign policy has ALWAYS been about MINE’S BIGGER AND BETTER which has only led to the slaughter of millions of innocent victims always in the blood draped covering of FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY!

So what have we created?

YOU ARE LOOKIN’ AT IT!

Every bomb and bullet the U.S. provides to Ukraine RIGHT NOW is just an “over there example” of Uvalde, Texas! Without the up to the minute details.

Every missile system the U.S. provides Taiwan is just another Buffalo, New York in the making just with a bigger payload.

But what the BIG LEARNING that every American citizen has been awakened to (IF YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION) is according to The US Supreme Court, law enforcement agencies are not required to provide protection to the citizens who are forced to pay the police for their “services.”

Did you get that?

Appears that what the police does do BEST is beat minorities and kill them on a regular basis.

Just a little bit scary, don’t you think?

The trick you may wish to know is the police DO have the legal responsibility to PROTECT YOU if you have been arrested and held in their custody. If not, they are not required to provide protection to the citizens AT ALL! ………. IT’S THE LAW!

So depending what is going down be sure to get arrested BEFORE the shit hits the fan. Ahhh, spread the word.

You see that “What you project” is what you receive back. Little bit scary really if you understand that that is the way all this works.

Good Luck.

STEP BACK, let Tubularsock through here.

You have got to have recognized that we are living in bazaar times. And it is extremely difficult to get the full picture because we have been trained over our years that the movie we are living in has pretty much been standard fare.

And because of that traditional view of living we may have been really rather slow at the uptake when it comes to the blatant danger because it has all the trappings of the same old same old. BUT, let Tubularsock give you a little bit different point of view and let us see what happens.

Oh sure, Tubularsock’s view is presented FREE to you but if you wish to donate a brown unmarked lunch bag stuffed with unmarked Franklins feel free to do so. Say, like under the bus bench at 13th and Lincoln Ave.?

Appreciate it.

The current movie that we each are staring in looks like the same old good guys vs. bad guys style except that the BAD GUYS are really BAD GUYS on steroids! They are for REAL!

The entire cast has been taken right from Central Casting. And as you will see, your part is really only a stand-in part with NO DIALOGUE. That way, you get paid less than the stars. You know below scale.

No time to bitch now, you as citizens know your place.

Anyway, just look at the stars. And you will see as Tubularsock is going to point out to you that these stars ARE PERFECT!

Now STEP BACK behind the portable crowd control braided rope held by the gold stanchions.

PLEASE STEP BACK.

So now let’s look at our first living film. It is almost as good as John Wayne, partners.

Shot Anyone? It’s a doctor flick.

Then there is the classic HORROR GENRE. OF COURSE “SCHWAB EVIL”.
Come on, can it get better than this, yet it is only type casting!

And there are all those CRIME IN ACTION flicks. This one involves some very heinous criminal types disguised in robes of the realm.

And then how could any period in our history be without the ALL OUT WAR scenario? It has played out over and over and over at the box office as well the streets of the world.

And then no matter how bad war happens to be there is ALWAYS some Capitalist Pig trying to make a buck. Isn’t that ALWAYS the way?

So here has been presented Tubularsock’s current reruns at the movies.

PASS THE POP CORN PLEASE.

The thing that bothers Tubularsock about WAR is having so many. In our 246 years of being a nation we have been in 225 wars! And that’s not counting the long history of rigging polls, supporting military coups, channeling funds and spreading political propaganda in other countries.

The United States has been involved in a number of foreign interventions throughout its history that are not called wars yet many people get killed.

And what is way worse in Tubularsock’s opinion is the political leaders in the United States of America lecturing the World about how WRONG other nations are for having wars and then Moralizing about the subject. The old “pot calling the kettle black” syndrome.

And now here we are once again. If you haven’t looked into this current conflict you would not be aware that the U.S. has been up to it’s “chinny-chin-chin” in setting up this current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. WE HELPED CAUSE IT!

Yet to listen to our propaganda news outlets WE ARE ALL SHOCKED WITH DESPAIR that RUSSIA AND ABOVE ALL PUTIN are so evil.

For Tubularsock it is rather funny to listen to the shit coming out of their mouths except Tubularsock had to get out Tubularsock’s hip-boots to protect Tubularsock’s shoes.

But then this headline hit the news and enough is enough ……

And just like shit hitting the fan …….. Tubularsock just had to directly respond:

And the beat goes on ………………

Just where does Tubularsock start?

Sitting around Tubularsock’s top floor corner office in Tubularsock’s underground bunker overlooking Washington D.C. from Oakland, CA things look as weird and fucked up like so many days in the US of America.

If dumbass-dumbness received an award we’d be first in line whether in the realm of political, social, or economic endeavors. Hey! It’s the way we are don’t you know. Gold Medalists!

As you may have noticed WE pulled out of Afghanistan and left them with a pile of shit that we assisted in creating. But 20 years of destruction isn’t enough.

We still can drone them whenever we want ……. that’s the American Way. But we are not responsible for saving them anymore. Not that they ever asked us to do so, remember?

And remember Afghanistan attacked us …….. ahhhh, OH, WE attacked them. That is how WE in the U.S. define democracy. Ain’t that a bitch!

If you remember, the FBI was prevented by the CIA to interfere with the known Saudi undercover agents who later became the 9/11 terrorists. And oddly that not one of the 9/11 terrorists were from Afghanistan. Most were from Saudi Arabia!

So the U.S. attacked Afghanistan. Seems reasonable. Right?

The Saudi Royal Family helped to fund the 9/11 attack and the U.S. attacked Afghanistan! Ahh, right?

And Osama bin Laden was part of a wealthy Saudi family ……… go figure.

And because WE were on such a winning streak WE moved on to attacking Iraq because ahhh, they attacked us. OH YEAH, WE ATTACKED THEM!

But ahhhh, the Saudi Royal Family helped to fund the 9/11 attack so WE attacked Iraq.

Hmmmm, seems like some kind of pattern.

And the U.S. government has done everything it can to get in the way of helping the 9/11 Families from holding Saudi Arabia responsible for suing the Saudis for family loss.

So why change all this solid logic now?

Buydone has signed an Executive Order to allow the $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets to be dispersed between the starving Afghan people and the 9/11 victims.

WOW! Now just why is AFGHANISTAN responsible for this rather than Saudi Arabia? Don’t ask.

And exactly why is the U.S. holding Afghanistan’s money? Simple, after a 20 year occupation of Afghanistan by the U.S., WE left Afghanistan WITHOUT a government!

Now you can’t say that the U.S. isn’t good at what it does best, DESTABILIZATION!

But here is the great irony. The people of Afghanistan ARE STAVING TO DEATH NOW but WE have to follow the LAW.

So, U.S. officials stressed that this is only the beginning of a multi-step, months-long process, which will require actions from the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and financial institutions that would ultimately administer the funds.

However THE AFGHANISTAN PEOPLE ARE STAVING TO DEATH NOW!

Now we are following the law? Where was that law when WE decided to invade and destroy Afghanistan?

But don’t be scared, last November the U.S. State Department approved its first major arms sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under U.S. President Joe Buydone with the sale of 280 air-to-air missiles valued at up to $650 million.

Never EVER say that the American people aren’t a caring loving people!

DRONE ON TRUMP

 

Now Tubularsock has become aware that an impeachment is really an old concept of the so called “civilized” world.

You know the story: “No one is above the law”. EVERYONE in the political sphere are willing to say that over and over with a straight face.

And yet, rather than look into the offense and totally investigate the charges, the game is to obstruct any just-process for investigating and dodge, using procedural maneuvering to bypass any information and hide it from the American people.

Seems par for the course to Tubularsock.

That is why Tubularsock sees that a more modern procedural process may be in order.

Just what if “A LONE WOLF” with access to drone driving takes out Air Force One on its way back from Mar-a- Lago blowing up Donald AND maybe even Ivanka (you know …. a twofer).

We could be shocked and run around pointing the finger at Iran, Venezuela, or Cuba for starters. OR EVEN the Deep State! (But whatever you do, don’t point a finger at Israel or Saudi Arabia.)

We could all run about saying “WHY?” or “WHAT HAVE WE DONE?” or “ONLY SOMEONE “EVIL’” would do such a thing!

You know, the same old brain dead response from Americans.

And then it would be off to war we go because what better way to abhor violence than to attack and kill …… well, those responsible.

EVEN if we don’t know or can’t prove who that may be it doesn’t really matter.

You remember Iraq, right? Or Afghanistan?

Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia which logically led to war with Iraq and Afghanistan.

So really, extortion, bribery, selling out to a foreign country for personal gain, using a political office to acquire financial gain, lie, cheat, obstruct justice and being Orange with small hands are really only minor qualifications of illegal activities for the Presidency as opposed to WAR CRIMES!

Just maybe Americans just might want to, besides draw and quarter the Orange Wonder, arrest and try Baby Bush and Obomber as well as the Orange Turd for Crimes Against Humanity!

And sure you can toss in fucking Killery and OLD Joe as well!

But that ain’t going to happen so Tubularsock will just have to wait for that Lone Wolf to do what others won’t do.

And please remember hypothetical scenarios ARE NOT threats but are simply wishful thinking of possibilities that could happen.

Tubularsock is not advocating violence toward anyone. But Tubularsock’s sympathy toward a dead rat is not high on Tubularsock’s compassionate scale. Just sayen’.

So how about a rousing chorus of kum ba yah to close.

 

TUBULARSOCK’S CHRISTMAS WISH!

 

Well it has become extremely difficult to deny that we are living in a complete loony-tune world and the escape hatch has been closed for repairs.

There is an attempt to dump Frumpy-Orange-Dumpy off the wall and all the kings horses and all the kings men won’t be able to put him back together again.

Doesn’t Tubularsock only wish.

No, the Orange-Turd has nine lives and his true followers lap up Orange-Turd’s shit faster than a bag full of Mac-nuggets.

And the Corp-Democraps have done everything they can to keep the same stagnated Biden-Clinton-Obummer clap trap and not even dress it up.

The CorpDems don’t want ANY change to the system in truth. They benefit with Dump in office personally and their income and investment portfolios prove it.

The CorpDems if elected may benefit more if they take control however either way they’ll benefit personally. So FUCK YOU America!

And don’t you worry, either party believes in and supports endless wars because THAT is where the money happens to be.

Helping the poor, helping the sick, helping education, providing education for the incarcerated, investing in infrastructure …….. COST TOO MUCH!

Killing people indiscriminately in other countries WE CAN AFFORD.

That is where the money is made.

And the CorpDems and the Repulicant’s will keep that going and pocket the money.

That is why ANY candidate that is NOT WITH THEM is against THE AMERICAN WAY.

And what is the AMERICAN WAY ——- KILLING!

Don’t think so ………….. take a real look at American History.

Now there is one way to really help shift this inevitable negative direction.

Tubularsock would take Baby-Bush and Obomber and arrest both of them for WAR CRIMES and put them on trial …….. NOW!

You see, if the stand-ins of the powerful keep dodging responsibility for their actions we’ll just keep getting the same corporate puppets.

And you know that is not going to happen so just sit back and say a little prayer for an atomic bomb test going awry and hitting Washington, D.C. while Dump, VP-Dense, and a full session of Congress are in session.

Tubularsock knows it is just too much to ask for BUT Christmas IS coming after-all!

 

DEATH CULT AMERICA

 

Well “Mad dog Mattis”, our beloved Secretary of Defense, has admitted that the 80 plus living people who are dead now after President Dump bomb the Syrian Airbase with Tomahawk missiles in 2017 didn’t have to die.

Mattis, admits that THERE IS NO EVIDENCE ASSAD USED SARIN GAS ON HIS OWN PEOPLE IN 2013 OR IN 2017!

Remember that entire thing about Obomber’s “red line in the sand” and the criticism he received because HE DIDN’T bomb Syria for the gas attack in 2013. He didn’t have clear evidence that Assad really used sarin gas. And then later it was shown that “our” terrorists were the ones that used it.

So Obomber not retaliating was due to lack of clear evidence. And rather than blunder with death and destruction he stepped back.

However LittleLimpDickTrump RUSHED to bomb the Syrian Airbase and kill 80 plus people with no clear evidence that the Assad Government had done it. His action was ONLY because he wanted to ACT LIKE he had a large dick. Ask Stormy, he doesn’t!

No surprise there.

But “Mad dog” didn’t bother to explain how the United States was going to bring those 80 plus people back from the dead. Well, in truth he never really thought about the people.

He only admitted that the U.S. had no proof that Assad was involved.

Tubularsock is surprised that we didn’t rush off and bomb Afghanistan like Bush did after 9/11.

You see, The U.S. has to bomb somebody! It’s the MANLY thing to do.

That is what the presstitutes and the establish power structure calls “Presidential”!

And as “Mad dog Mattis has said, “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

He is definitely a creepy little old limp prick!

 

But it is a systematic problem for the United States. We are a killing culture and it is condoned by the President and Congress.

AND the citizens of the U.S as well.

But the citizens of the U.S. don’t really care much if we kill random men, women, and children in those foreign countries because they somehow find themselves on the battlefield called THEIR COUNTRY and get themselves killed.

And it is agreed that America is in THEIR COUNTRY to save them from THEIR COUNTRY!

And the fact that they get dead by the United States because we are there to save them ……….

WELL …… that is their fault

But then WE have ANOTHER school shooting and the American citizen gets, well you know, all emotional and they feel something should be done.

But the President and Congress NEVER wants to face the gun issue because EVERYONE is just too emotional to clearly decide ANYTHING about guns at this point in the latest crisis.

 

Let step back and support and send our prayers and face this crisis when the emotions calm down.

WELL THE PROBLEM WITH THIS is when will our emotional free period show up.

There have been 17 school shootings this year alone and we are only in mid-February!

………………………………………

But rest assured that the gun issue CAN’T BE DEALT WITH BY CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT!

WHY?

Oh my, you still don’t know? Shame on you.

The gun issue can not be changed until we change THE SHOW!

And what’s the show that runs Congress and the President into INACTION?

 

 

KOREAN CRIP ALLOWED INTO TRUMP COUNTRY?

 

If you hadn’t noticed a crippled Korean was allowed into the State of the Union address even though he was a former NORTH KOREAN.

Tubularsock thought we had a WALL to protect us from the “evils” of North Korea!

Come to find out the entire Congress are in favor of North Korean cripples. Or at least it appeared that way with all of them standing up and applauding. Damn!

Now don’t you worry ……. it wasn’t real, it was a sympathetic ploy for war and we ALL can stand united for that! Right?

It is just part of the old “North Korea is so brutal to THEIR OWN CITIZENS” that WE (AMERICA) must “protect” Koreans by bombing them back to the stone age in order to save them from their own evil government.

In a lot of ways it is Trump’s new campaign:

“MAKE MORE KOREANS CRIPPLED AGAIN”.

(Oh sure, Tubularsock has made hats!)

But this isn’t even that creative. It’s the old Iraq weapons of mass distraction ploy. Will Americans be fooled again ….. SO SOON?

Because the words have already been used pushing exactly the same bull shit. It is just OrangeFuck mouthing them.

Flash back to DumbFuckShrub, remember how Shrub explained that the Saddam Hussein regime “. . . ha(d) already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens . . .”? (Of course after the Reagan Administration sold them the chemicals, you know for “farm” use.)

You see, this kind of imagery is the stepping stones to preparing the American citizens for another WAR to save humanity.

After all, we have to attack them there rather than have them right here in OUR HOMELAND!

 

Remember how this works?

But really, it’s too late!

“OUR”(?) President has already LET IN a North Korean Crip! They are already here!

But as President Dump put it, “North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland . . .” He left out the classic line “in the shape of a mushroom cloud” that the Shrub Team used so effectively. Too bad.

And those North Koreans have AT LEAST one or two nukes compared to the U.S. nuclear arsenal which if placed end to end would reach to Mars and back BUT IT IS those North Koreans that are dangerous!

Hell somebody might REALLY USE THEM on civilians!

Oh, yeah ……. we already have …….. twice!

So why is Tubularsock supposed to be scared again?

Well, there IS A REASON TO BE SCARED …………………

President OrangeTweet picked Dr. Victor Cha for nomination as the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea.

Cha was vetted and has been approved by South Korea as well. Cha is a very capable and knowledgeable choice to be Ambassador and as American Ambassadors go maybe overqualified if there is such a thing.

So for OrangeTweet to pick him was a surprise to Tubularsock.

BUT as the world turns …….. a few days ago Cha was pulled from the list by the Trump Administration.

WHY? Sure you asked!

Because in private Dr. Victor Cha expressed concerns about a military strike approach to North Korea!

Well good bye, Victor!

It appears that the Trump Administration believes that a “bloody nose” strategy on North Korea is all that it will take to keep North Korea in line.

And the “bloody nose” strategy goes like this:

If in the future North Korea does a missile test or other provocative act the American response would be a carefully targeted attack on a North Korean military facility. But this is exactly why North Korea wants nuclear weapons! North Korea doesn’t want to be Syria or Iraq where the U.S. can bomb anytime it gets upset!. No, with nuclear weapons …….. the warmongering Americans have to think twice.

HAVING nuclear weapons keeps from being attacked at the whim of the U.S.! What is so difficult to understand here?

Now if one reverses this Trump-esque insanity:

If the U.S. happened to do something that North Korea took as a provocative act and North Korea responded by “carefully targeting” a U.S. ship to show their disapproval, just what do you think the U.S.response would be?

Yep!

So, how can it be assumed that an irrational Kim Jong-un, as he is portrayed, would take it all in stride and not assume that this “selected rational limited attack” wasn’t a full out attack and in response start a war that kills hundreds of thousands of North and South Korean civilians and large numbers of US troops in a matter of hours?

AND THE ENVELOPE PLEASE ……………….

BOOOOOOOOM!

 

REMEMBER SYRIA?

The question of the hour …… WHEN IS INTERVENTION in someone else’s country not a war?

 

Somehow Tubularsock recalls Fat-Tweet-Trump on the campaign trail in October of 2016 saying, “What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria, you’re going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton.”

Well, Tubularsock figures that FTT did listen to Hillary Clinton and this last week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that the United States with several thousand troops on the ground in Syria will keep those troops there until the government of President Bashar al-Assad is overthrown.

 

So now, WE ARE BACK TO REGIME CHANGE again.
Though in truth we never really left the idea … and like Obummer before him, Orange Tweet just lied.

Which makes him in with Obummer and the Witch Clinton. However Trump’s stay in Syria will be the most “Bigly” stay “Ever”! No one’s stay in Syria has EVER been as BIGLY!

Just goes to show you how weak and slimy Fat-Tweet-Trump happens to be. All the signs of a small dick. Thank you Stormy.

But Tubularsock would say that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson statement is what really takes the cake as when he spouted, “President Bashar al-Assad regime is corrupt, and its methods of governance and economic development have increasingly excluded certain ethnic and religious groups.”

And Saudi Arabia? Israel? Ukraine? Sounds pretty close to all of them but we’re not sending troops into those “allies” countries, now are we …… yet.

It appears that Tillerson is getting confused between the actions of the Assad Administration and the actions of the Trump Administration and their social and economic policies toward their respective citizens.

Oh well, who counts?

So let’s get real and down right personal. Has a Syrian EVER caused YOU any harm in your entire life?

Well?

You see, that is why 9/11 shouldn’t be taken so seriously by Americans. Our country 9/11’s Syria EVERYDAY and that seems to be accepted by the American public. So let’s get over those damn 3000 dead and move on.

The U.S. 9/11’ed Iraq, Libya, and even Yemen and we want to push on to Iran!

And you recall the American’s silly question after 9/11, right?

“Why did they attack us?”
And the Bush Administration said it was BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOM?

Yeah …… our freedom to blow them up at will. Our freedom to “influence” their elections. Our freedom to take their resources.

If this question and answer seems ridiculous to you then you are on the correct track.

If this is still your question, then ask yourself which country in the world has been at war 222 out of 239 Years of its existence? Our country has been at war 93% of our time calculated as of March 19, 2017. (http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473)

AND MANY OF THESE WARS THE U.S. WERE THE AGGRESSOR!

MAYBE MOST IF THE OVERALL VIEW IS TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION.

 

And our goal is to destabilize the country or regions in order to control. The United States has no interest in the people but with their resources and geographic positioning.

That is why we’ll bomb a village, town, or city to “save” it! OH, but ONLY in the name of humanity!

So in truth 9/11 was just “blowback” we deserved.
But American’s were made to believe that “THEY” did it to us!
THE DECEIVED ARE DIRECTED MORE EASILY!