>Haha fuck you liberals it’s called the friend-enemy distinction, we make the law we need and the rest we throw out, read theory

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>Fuck you liberals how could you do this to us don’t you care about our feelings where’s the law that lets you do this

Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!). They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to “save face.” People approached me four days ago, saying, “Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.” But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump threatens Iran with potentially "blowing up the rest of their Country, their leaders included!"

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

Screenshot of a thread on X. Top post by Steve Laws, verified account @Steve_Laws_, posted four hours ago: “People like to avoid the mixed race question but here’s a prime example of these people belonging nowhere. We don’t want them and neither do they. Very problematic.” The post quote-tweets an earlier post by the same account: “We don’t want them. They’re yours.” That post in turn quotes a user called Naima, @Naimaintaipei, replying to @eleanorzjames and @MrNChance: “Mixed race people aren’t black at all. We don’t want them to claim black.” The Laws post shows 79 replies, 59 reposts, 928 likes, 16,000 views. Below it, a reply from a verified account called Zoomer, @ZoomerHistorian, posted four hours ago: “A genuinely rootless people, terrible.” The reply shows 6 replies, 3 reposts, 234 likes, 2,500 views.

Two Restore Britain supporters, both in Rupert Lowe’s orbit, discussing on X about what to do with those who are mixed-race. Conversations that once had to be held secretly now held with little to no pushback. So much for the marketplace of ideas.

It took this dude one year to put “Nixon in the middle of Watergate” numbers on the board.

In some ways he’s a generational talent at the peak of his game.

"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.

– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76

37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.

apnorc.org/projects/few...

Forgot to mention this bit is from Kissinger’s second volume of memoirs “Year of Upheaval” which came out in 1982 btw

“Free Rudolf Hess, The Peace Pilot. For proposing Peace he is in Prison for over 25 yrs. Why?” Stamp on letter to Spiro Agnew

he had letters saved with stamps saying “free rudolf hess”

As someone who has personally visited the archives of Agnew’s personal papers, there is a shocking amount of correspondence with holocaust deniers and neo nazis

Gotta love the Cantfeld decision

Agnew came into the room as I was putting down the telephone and asked me what I thought of Nixon's Watergate statement. I told him, too, that I could not assess its impact. In a somewhat contemptuous, unfeeling manner, Agnew said that Nixon was kidding himself if he thought he could avoid firing Haldeman and Ehrlichman. He would be lucky if he could save himself. Agnew's acid comment dramatized, on one level, the ambivalent relationship that almost inevitably grows up between the only two nationally elected officials of our government. At the outset, Vice Presidents are always hailed as partners of the President; the new Chief Executive proclaims that he will avoid the tendency of all his predecessors to re-

duce the Vice President to - in Nelson Rockefeller's phrase - "standby equipment." He is promised a major role in policy formulation and execution. With rare exceptions these expectations have been disap-pointed, to the growing frustration of the Vice President, whose increasingly visible chagrin sets up a vicious circle by fueling the natural uneasiness and aloofness of the President. Natural because it takes a superhuman degree of self-abnegation to be at ease with a man whose most exhilarating moment is likely to be one's death - and men with that capacity for self-abnegation do not reach the Presidency. There is also a serious bureaucratic obstacle to assigning the Vice President major responsibilities. The Vice President is the only member of the Executive Branch not subject to removal by the President. To give him a regular task is to gamble on his permanent willing subordi-nation; in case of policy disagreement, the President's capacity to enforce discipline upon a Vice President controlling his own segment of the bureaucracy would be circumscribed. Hence, Vice Presidents usually wind up with odd jobs in widely different fields or with clear terminal dates. This prevents the articulation of a clear-cut, coherent policy position or the creation of a bureaucratic base. (As Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller used to joke that he was an avid reader of the obituary pages to see when he might be sent abroad as head of an American funeral delegation.)

be sure, the Vice President sits in on National Security Council meetings, where the gravest decisions of national policy are considered. But no one in an advisory position can prosper without staff help or the ability to follow up. The Vice President either supports the existing consensus, in which case he enhances the prevailing prejudice as to his irrelevance, or he challenges it, in which case he usually lacks detailed tactical knowledge and he risks becoming a nuisance. On one or two occasions when Agnew took a position challenging Nixon's, he was excluded from a subsequent meeting even though the President adopted Agnew's point of view. Nixon just wanted to make sure that everyone understood who was in charge. Moreover, Presidents are encouraged in this tendency by their White House entourage. These men and women derive their power exclusively from propinquity to the President. They guard this relationship jealously against all outsiders. Their stock in trade is loyalty, an attitude that easy access to the President fosters and that shared experience with White House stresses tends to institutionalize. The President and his aides are beset by the same critics and journalists; they fight the same importuning bureaucracies; they are subject to harassment by the same pressure groups. A community of interests is inevitable, as is a joint front against all those with autonomous sources of loyalty and, worse still, independ

reminded me about Kissinger’s take on the Vice Presidency

it’s quite a good one

Is this Schlesinger’s essay on the Vice Presidency heh

genuinely trying to imagine what the Trump FP in Vietnam would have looked liked

When Truman retired in 1953 to Independence, Missouri, one of the first things he thought about, he later wrote, was the question of "how the unique experience and special knowledge that a former President acquires could be put to some use to serve the country.... We ought not waste all these assets." He envied the British and their Privy Council, where former Prime Ministers and cabinet members are available to advise the government in office. If the United States could not establish an equivalent council of state, then why should not ex-Presidents be designated Free Members of the Congress, entitled to sit in either House and take part in debate though not to vote?

lol Truman

TRUMP: I WOULD HAVE WON VIETNAM VERY QUICKLY

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

Surprise!

washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-accident-counter-narcotics/?itid=hp_alert

hmmm…

guy who believes that mobutu, ally of the longest period of socialist ascendency in french history, was punished by the fascist amerikkka for hestitating on privatization by being invaded by the inherently reactionary banyamulenge kulaks and the tutso-nazi states of rwanda and burundi

From Richard Evans’ “Hitlers People”: Yet it is too simple to see Papen merely as a dim-witted aristocratic conservative. His politics in the late 1920s and early 1930s were in fact profoundly modern, part of a widespread turn of the Catholic Church against democracy and towards the authoritarian 'corpor-ate state' favoured by dictators like Franco, Salazar, Dollfuss and Schuschnigg. This was combined in Papen's politics with a resentful German nationalism and a strong belief, born of a lifetime's experience, in military values, which were enough to cause him to make common cause with Hitler despite repeated humiliations. Papen was more than just a 'fellow traveller'. It is tempting to see him as an example of how easily conventional politicians can be seduced into supporting demagogues. But he was not a conventional politician: he was an enemy of democracy, a clerico-fascist, a man imbued with military and ultra-nationalist values. He salved his conscience by ignoring many of the darker aspects of Nazism. He claimed retrospectively that he knew about the concentration camps but 'always believed that the people were treated honestly there'. He blamed any atrocities committed in them on the war, equating them with the Allied bombing of Dresden. He lacked the perception to realize that by serving Hitler he was not serving his country. Personal ambition, arrogance and self-im-portance kept him working for the Nazis in positions of decreasing

the regime was a fundamental challenge to Catholic dogma, but it called forth no condemnation from Papen, nor did the mass murder of the mentally ill and handicapped during the war, though the Catholic Bishop of Münster, Clemens von Galen, risked his life by publicly denouncing it from the pulpit. Papen was close to another bishop, the Austrian Alois von Hudal, whose attempt to counter the anti-Christian writings of Alfred Rosenberg he encouraged; but Hudal's bid to create a 'synthesis between the Christian idea and the healthy doctrines of National Socialism' made massive concessions to Nazi ideology, and he ended his career arranging for the escape of prominent surviving Nazis to Argentina after the war. As Hans Frank asked some of his fellow accused after Papen had given evidence at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial: 'Why the devil didn't he go to the United States after January 30[1933]? He could have come back now and still be a famous man and sit out there in the audience and laugh at us' He was, Frank complained, 'trying to get out of the fact that he played along with the Party and was an ardent Hitler supporter all along'. 45]

been reading about a strange and very bad man recently

I get it but like, some of the highest grossing films of the 70s include
- Star Wars
- Jaws
- The Exorcist
- The Godfather
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Alien.

Of the highest grossing movies of the 2010s, the highest non franchised film is Frozen at 14th.

The thing about the photo of the IDF soldier beheading a statue of Jesus in south Lebanon is that the Israeli military has an effectively near 0% conviction rate for its soldiers and so this will just keep happening over and over and over and over. This is simply what unlimited impunity breeds.

Trump says Iran talks will resume, threatens power plants and bridges if no deal The president accused Iran of violating the ceasefire as ships reported attacks in the Strait of Hormuz but said U.S. representatives would be back at the table this week.

Once again, Trump is threatening war crimes against the Iranian people. 
 
All this could be avoided if Republicans in Congress joined us in voting to end this illegal and costly war. 
 
We will give them another chance this week. They must all be held accountable.

actively evil shit here

They brought back David Arnold to help make this song apparently