Ru1977
The Irishman
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U.S. Politics
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docsilence
Dungeon Daddy
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Yeah, that's a solid take. I do appreciate the "that's already paid for" thing cos I think that's what a lot of the comedians involved were probably thinking - how much is a ration of shit worth? And if the US is on the verge of the end of free speech, make your bag and run. Integrity doesn't fill your gas tank.
Then they would have to admit they like fascism in some way.
US says Qatar to build air force facility in Idaho
The facility in Idaho will be used to train Qatari pilots to fly F-15 fighter jets, the US defence secretary says.
www.bbc.com
White House blasts Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump
A spokesman says the Nobel Committee placed "politics over peace" in awarding the coveted award to Venezuela's opposition leader.
www.bbc.com
Trump accidentally posted his message pressuring Pam Bondi to charge his enemies, source says
Trump was surprised to learn he had actually posted the message to his Truth Social account, the source said.
www.nbcchicago.com
Chooch555
Thoughtful
Someone has blinders on... routinely
Caused by YOUR party dummy. Where was she when DOGE was laying off workers???
Pretty much what they want to do is privatize all of government so that there will be no accountability anymore whatsoever.
Caused by YOUR party dummy. Where was she when DOGE was laying off workers???
LMAO ummm so you fire everyone & then who will be doing that work???
Pretty much what they want to do is privatize all of government so that there will be no accountability anymore whatsoever.
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Caused by Senator Schumer. Hahahahahaha..... you have to laugh because the reality is the entire conservative base believes this shit.
I mean, I fucking hate Schumer. But saying he's responsible for the shut down when your party controls every aspect of the government is some WILD cope.
I mean, I fucking hate Schumer. But saying he's responsible for the shut down when your party controls every aspect of the government is some WILD cope.
Love the line "When you come to work, you get paid." Uuhhh........
Once one of the big airports shuts down I'm sure we'll see some movement to pay air traffic controllers as essential workers like some other departments.
Chooch555
Thoughtful
ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began
WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murders committed by 5-year-olds since they began detaining children. “Democrats can whine and...
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It's honestly very funny that the grievance party wants its own thousand-year Reich.
Can you generate enough culture war animus to make people forget that you control every lever of government?
They are very good at blaming Democrats, immigrants, and people of color for every problem in America. How does that work in a dictatorship?
Apparently you can as witnessed by everything going on right now.
What the Democrats, and democracy in general, needs quickly is the coming financial pain. So far all the financial problems being created by Trump and the Republicans is being hidden by compliant media and businesses. However the businesses can't, and won't, keep taking the hit to keep Trump happy.
The economic pain is the only thing some of these idiots will understand and when it finally hits hard that should, at the least, keep them home during possible future elections. Let's be thankful that Trump can't help himself because I'm sure there were a lot of business types who were so happy (sarcasm) about his latest tariff announcement against China tanking the recent gains of the stock market.
Simple blame foreigners like North Korea & Iran keep blaming the U.S. for everything.
Darn those Canadians for blowing their wildfire smoke at us!!!
You hear that canprime? stop it or we're coming up there! *shakes fist dramatically*
'They treated us like animals' - Inside the epicentre of deportations in New York City
Chaotic scenes have become routine in a federal immigration court in Manhattan.
www.bbc.com
How an immigration raid on a Chicago apartment block unfolded
People living in a Chicago apartment block targeted in a big immigration raid have described seeing armed agents and a helicopter landing on the roof.
www.bbc.com
altcunningham
Laura Rings Enthusiast
It's the 1984 approach.
We are at war with Euarasia. We are at war with Eastasia, actually. Anyway, two minutes's hate, but it's not Goldstein, it's a moving target du jour.
They're doing it. It works. Many people don't leave their home state, let alone country. They are content to hear phantom problems, attribute it to a local hardship, and go with it. Look at a Portland and Chicago. It's your own country, and they don't give a damn. It's their own state, and its urban vs rural values, they don't give a damn.
All you need is to distract them and validate that their hardships are not their fault or their solution. Look at that fuckass who killed the two classmates. It's not new, the right wing just commodified and up sold it with a veneer of Its Just Memes Bro, It's Not That Serious, which are today's War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
It went from Wojak to Pepe to AI.
It's the Fahrenheit 451 approach
Censorship and alternative facts.
Anti-intellectualism and distrust of experts.
Entertainment and distraction .
Weaponized nostalgia / emotions.
Fear of the Other.
"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
"The televisor is ‘real.’ It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right."
People can be stupid. I mean that as definitive as possible - lack of intelligence. It's a willing ignorance. And then you realize there is no common sense as you believe it. As a kid I thought some adults were, but it's much worse than I thought and every day we see randos online or people in authority and we're like, "How do you even function?"
They function because at the core all you need to do is the above, and stupid self centered people with no emotional capacity for growth or empathy will obey it as long as you don't change their beer label graphic design, because that's their personality.
I can be optimistic and hold light for the future. But to question how they can get away with it or how much will people take. We've got books on that, too. Even in World War 2 it took immediate self interest to be proactive. We like to revise it as how heroic and Team America World Police we are, God's gift to Liberty. Nah. Sitting by that idly until then is the same as everything now. I'm not judging them. It's just how it works.
We are at war with Euarasia. We are at war with Eastasia, actually. Anyway, two minutes's hate, but it's not Goldstein, it's a moving target du jour.
They're doing it. It works. Many people don't leave their home state, let alone country. They are content to hear phantom problems, attribute it to a local hardship, and go with it. Look at a Portland and Chicago. It's your own country, and they don't give a damn. It's their own state, and its urban vs rural values, they don't give a damn.
All you need is to distract them and validate that their hardships are not their fault or their solution. Look at that fuckass who killed the two classmates. It's not new, the right wing just commodified and up sold it with a veneer of Its Just Memes Bro, It's Not That Serious, which are today's War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
It went from Wojak to Pepe to AI.
It's the Fahrenheit 451 approach
Censorship and alternative facts.
Anti-intellectualism and distrust of experts.
Entertainment and distraction .
Weaponized nostalgia / emotions.
Fear of the Other.
"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
"The televisor is ‘real.’ It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right."
People can be stupid. I mean that as definitive as possible - lack of intelligence. It's a willing ignorance. And then you realize there is no common sense as you believe it. As a kid I thought some adults were, but it's much worse than I thought and every day we see randos online or people in authority and we're like, "How do you even function?"
They function because at the core all you need to do is the above, and stupid self centered people with no emotional capacity for growth or empathy will obey it as long as you don't change their beer label graphic design, because that's their personality.
I can be optimistic and hold light for the future. But to question how they can get away with it or how much will people take. We've got books on that, too. Even in World War 2 it took immediate self interest to be proactive. We like to revise it as how heroic and Team America World Police we are, God's gift to Liberty. Nah. Sitting by that idly until then is the same as everything now. I'm not judging them. It's just how it works.
altcunningham
Laura Rings Enthusiast
September 11th, I heard everything as it went down. Was living at home for that stretch of college. Was driving my mom to her ER shift and she likes NPR, and we heard a Cessna hit the tower. Weird.
Driving home. It might be an airliner.
Turn on TV at home. It's is an airliner and there's another inbound. Got my dad up just in time to see the Pentagon.
Axis of Evil. Yadda yadda. You know how it went. Decisive. Quick. Everyone ignorant or ignoring of the real origins of Al Qaeda and the US money and effort into it because of the Soviet Era.
Joined the Army a year later, mostly money, some Americanism. My dad is a Marine, of course.
Basic training in the processing barracks. People from cliques by region or skin color or religion. There's people jumping each other for being not black enough or from the wrong part of Atlanta. There's people getting into fights because of homophobic accusations and issues.
Get processed into the proper Company. Whole time there's still jackasses getting into blood feuds over race, religion, money, zip code, anytime the Drill Sergeant isn't around. Most wash out.
But still. You sat down, signed up lengthy paperwork. And at the end of the day you're still in Fort Benning being stupid about nothing under the guise of America and Heroism.
That's where I come from. People are stupid, and it's never America First, it's Me First. Of course they love that human Warcraft Gatorade Piss Bottle they call 47 and everything his puppetmasters orchestrate.
Driving home. It might be an airliner.
Turn on TV at home. It's is an airliner and there's another inbound. Got my dad up just in time to see the Pentagon.
Axis of Evil. Yadda yadda. You know how it went. Decisive. Quick. Everyone ignorant or ignoring of the real origins of Al Qaeda and the US money and effort into it because of the Soviet Era.
Joined the Army a year later, mostly money, some Americanism. My dad is a Marine, of course.
Basic training in the processing barracks. People from cliques by region or skin color or religion. There's people jumping each other for being not black enough or from the wrong part of Atlanta. There's people getting into fights because of homophobic accusations and issues.
Get processed into the proper Company. Whole time there's still jackasses getting into blood feuds over race, religion, money, zip code, anytime the Drill Sergeant isn't around. Most wash out.
But still. You sat down, signed up lengthy paperwork. And at the end of the day you're still in Fort Benning being stupid about nothing under the guise of America and Heroism.
That's where I come from. People are stupid, and it's never America First, it's Me First. Of course they love that human Warcraft Gatorade Piss Bottle they call 47 and everything his puppetmasters orchestrate.