surprised it took this long with how petty this administration acts, you should be proud
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surprised it took this long with how petty this administration acts, you should be proud
No stupid rules of engagement
The world is remarkably different almost 200 years after Von Clausewitz, and yet there's nothing new under the sun.
They say two-thousand zero zero, party over, oops out of time...
That scene in Cormac McCarthy's The Road where the son and father enjoy a preserved Coca-Cola...
Situation is FUBAR, what should we call this one? World War 3 or The Great Overshoot War?
"On a scale of 1-10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15"
*faint sounds of a Geiger counter rise and begin to crowd out the patriotic score*☢️
This is the kind of news reel footage you see at the start of a nuclear apocalypse film. Things turn grainy, the sound blurs, and then you cut to montage of things getting rapidly worse.
Why?
for regime change?
for seizing oil?
for a holy war?
Because the Trump et al Regime decides to.
This is not how democracies are supposed to go to war & this specifically is internationally illegal and domestically unconstitutional.
No stupid rules of engagement
... because critical mineral components are famously located in war-free zones?
Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."
Anticipated acceleration of anti-life policy
The largest investor in the Trump's BribeCoin was also pardoned by Trump. What are the odds?
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I didn’t stress it yesterday, but the megalomaniacal narcissism required for Trump to perpetuate this gargantuan, self-aggrandizing, bald-faced lie is off the scale:
“I have stopped Nuclear Wars from breaking out across the World between Pakistan and India, Iran and Israel, and Russia and Ukraine.”
and credit where it's due, for those interested in maps nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Johnson, how's that map coming?
Im Westen nichts Neues
President of the United States audibly shits himself in a press conference and that's the least offensive thing his administration will do that day 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Read it again.
collapse - polycrisis - the Great Turning - the Great Simplification. We are living in a time of upheaval.
If you feel grief, anxiety, despair, shattered expectations... you are not alone.
Explore resilience through community:
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New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
An original one-sheet color poster for "Dr. Strangelove," featuring the tagline, "The hot-line suspense comedy." The poster features a squadron of gray silhouetted B-52 bombers receding into the background and flying toward the viewer under the title of the film (in a red font), below which are caricatures from the back of the US president and the Soviet premier each holding a red telephone to their ear, a globe featuring a rendition of the US and Soviet flags between them. A woman's bare arm holding an empty wine or cocktail glass is draped over the Soviet premier's left shoulder.
A black and white archival photograph of a large movie theater marquee announcing "Dr. Strangelove."
An archival black and white photograph of Peter Sellers and his soon-to-be wife Britt Ekland standing inside a theater at one of the premieres in front of two large posters for the film. Sellers is wearing a dark overcoat while Ekland is holding flowers and wearing a leopard fur coat.
A full-page black and white advertisement in the January 29, 1964, edition of the New York Daily News for "Dr. Strangelove," featuring six large photographs of individual cast members in a scene from the film, each of them holding a telephone receiver (Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, Tracy Reed, and three images of Peter Sellers in his three roles, even though Dr. Strangelove never uses a telephone in the film) along with questions about each character (e.g., "Why did Dr. Strangelove want ten women for each man?," and "Where was General 'Buck' Turgidson when the hot-line rang?"
Today in 1964, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” premiered in New York City, Toronto, and London. The original release date of December 12, 1963—and a special New York City preview on November 22, 1963—were postponed after President Kennedy’s assassination.
"I must own that, as the events I am about to describe might have happened many different ways, my choice of these I shall assign can be grounded on nothing but mere conjecture..." - Rousseau
Same energy as "my source? I made that shit up."
This should be everyone's *base case* assumption. The president tried to refuse the peaceful transition of power once already and consistently mentions running for a 3rd term... his expectations are crystal clear.
Fucking podcaster brain-rotting, algo-driven, zero trust, low information, impossible to empathize dipshit slow-walk to collapse society.
Exasperated after a conversation with a coworker. They genuinely believe the citizens trying to protect their neighbors in Minnesota are paid actors, collecting $200K from billionaire George Soros
Hey, things are awful, we're all stressed, but it's still good to read books and encourage others to read, especially nonreaders. Reading novels can build empathy, and we could use even more empathy right about now.
