Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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A traffic cone with a warning sign that reads "Note to crow" admit Japanese text
Note to crow
One "side" forced a member of their party with credible allegations against him to resign.
The other put a felon in the White House.
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Stop telling me that "both sides are the same"
President Manbaby lashes out at the Pope by harming children.
We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.
Art of the deal, baby.
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.
@nytimes.com
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Truly the headline for our time.
A country where Flag Officers are dismissed on the whim of a president or a secretary of Defense -- and where it's tolerated by those in a position to stop it -- is a country in decline
Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime.
Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.
It’s been an unacceptably long time since I mentioned this so fuck this bigoted old shitbird and fuck all you shitbirds out there who support him.
This is so nauseatingly Un-American
This is an enemy of the Constitution bragging about its destruction
Man, this game ruled.
The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals.
We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
Oh man. I had his Macs for Dummies book way back in the day, and we even exchanged a few words on Twitter once upon a time.
This appalling White House video game imagery on Iran illustrates what @teotten1.bsky.social and I discuss on today's pod: The role of fantasy, unreality and sadism-as-entertainment in MAGA politics.
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The US govt mixing video of real violence in a war it started with a video game scene feels like crossing a(nother) line.
I’m not sure what to say. I don’t think war is a game. And even when I think military action is necessary, there are real human beings on the other end, not pixels that respawn.
“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
There is no reforming this. There is only abolition, and then trials.
Decent people see friendship as a matter of mutual respect and support, with reciprocal obligation borne out of decency.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
The president constantly lying about stolen elections, after staging a coup attempt, & now threatening to federalize & steal future elections, should be the primary news story in the country 24/7 & on every front page until he is impeached & removed next week.
"...Every healthy society rests on some shared conception of the sacred — sacred heroes, sacred texts, sacred ideals — and when that goes away, anxiety, atomization and a slow descent toward barbarism are the natural results."
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One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.
This can't be "reformed"
Nobody will forget nor forgive this.
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.