Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."
I kind of want to go
Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.
Bring back art deco trains. I had to take an Amtrak across country and was devastated to find it a glorified bus. No richly upholstered interiors, no first-class dining cars. I did not solve a single murder. How far we have fallen.
again, call me crazy.
…but would anyone even be shocked at this point? like, we’re way past “normal” and it feels like a rubicon’s definitely been crossed.
anyways,
peace.
love.
& buy Canadian. 🇨🇦
11/11
a sociopathic narcissist like Trump can only (think they’d) be satisfied by a testament to ego as grandiose as rebranding history books with the legacy (+ naming rights) of uniting the continent from Greenland to Panama.
a new American Empire.
“the Golden Age of America has just begun.”
10/11
tonight, he invoked Manifest Destiny.
he referenced Tocqueville’s “boundless continent”
I mean, the writing’s on the wall and I’m not sure why more people aren’t saying the quiet part out loud when he already kinda is…
9/11
once Trump got into the Oval again, there was nothing left to fear.
the Gulf of America was the “joke” trial balloon.
he’s laying the groundwork.
tonight? pretext to action established for the Panama Canal— claiming American ownership due to violation of the terms of Carter’s sale in ‘78.
8/11
then Canada… after calling us the 51st state, our PM a Governor, and opining on how great it’ll be when we join the US, tonight he implied Canada’s culpability in 100ks of US fentanyl deaths and threatened even further economic hardship (beyond his arbitrary tariffs) to break our resolve.
7/11
he said he would “wage war” on terrorist organizations like the cartels. the cartels that were a clear danger to the American people. the same cartels he went on to say were controlling all of Mexico.
so, who is he gearing up to wage war upon, exactly?
6/11
continuing his possessive lust for Greenland as a place of great military and strategic importance, he went as far as to say it would be America’s “one way or the other.”
the guy’s not even trying to code switch from his private mob parlance.
5/11
and his brazen allying with Putin and Kremlin talking points only amplifies how his own foreign policy objectives were directed conspicuously, and almost exclusively, at his own neighbours.
4/11
in foreign policy, he continued to strongarm Ukraine into the kind of “peace” afforded only by surrendering some (at lease, for now) of your land to satisfy an invading power.
i.e. give the bully what he wants and thank them for the honour.
essentially, might makes right.
3/11
together with musk & the tech bro billionaires, MAGA is simply more aligned with dictator-fronted oligarchies than democracies.
tonight’s speech made that abundantly clear.
2/11
call me an alarmist. whatever.
but we weren’t wrong when we said he’d never concede an election, and now that he’s back in, its actually reasonable to think he’ll refuse to leave.
Trump has now tested the guardrails and found them wanting. he now knows with confidence they will not hold.
🧵 1/11
Trudeau: "We're probably gonna keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans: we're not booing you ... we're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us. And we're insulted ... we're gonna fight. And we're gonna win."
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."
A reminder for these times.
4. Give Rian Johnson whatever he wants for his new trilogy
5. Launch post-TROS New Jedi Order era feat. Rey, Finn, Poe, and revived Ben Solo
6. Hire great writers to punch up all existing Filoni/Favreau scripts
7. Bring back Cobb Vanth
1. Clone Wars-style series set post-ROTJ feat. OT trio
2. Hire filmmaker with best vision (even if non-SW fan like Gilroy) to direct Heir to the Empire trilogy set in Filoni-verse
3. Recast OT trio for said trilogy + other stories leading up to the Rise of Kylo Ren
I think about this headline all of the time.
Moodboard collage. Images from top left to bottom right: close up of woman’s red lips, Chrysler building at golden hour, martini coupe, coruscant balcony, interior noir detective office, woman in red dress looking out window, flying speeder car, man in suit wearing a jet pack.
🏙️ Retro-Futurist Hopepunk
💀 Masquerades & Secret Societies
💋 Kissing In Front of Explosions
🌙 Thunderstorms & Moonlit Balconies
🔮 Ancient Artifacts & Mad Science
💃 Nightclubs, Big Bands, & Martinis
❤️🔥 Friends-Enemies-Lovers
🤺 Rooftop Chases & Swordplay
👻 Reckoning with Ancestral Sin
#WSPitQ #A #M #SF
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final.
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It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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