2025-12-02 22:50:44
Second boat strike tests GOP loyalty to Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/boat-strike-republican-trump-loyalty-00673439
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p128#a251202p128
Second boat strike tests GOP loyalty to Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/boat-strike-republican-trump-loyalty-00673439
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p128#a251202p128
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Blue Scholars:
🎵 Loyalty
#BlueScholars
https://bluescholars.bandcamp.com/track/loyalty
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IZ9g7Em2BAsm4EPxjuPTt
Russia to hand occupied Mariupol to Chechen Akhmat units as "payment" for loyalty — partisans report new forces arriving - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/17/russia-to-hand-occupied-mariupol-to-chechen-akhmat-units-as-payment-for-loyalty-partisans-report-new-forces-arriving/
In the statement he made to investors and media today, Sarandos said, “I’d say right now, you should count on everything that is planned on going to the theater through Warner Bros. will continue to go to the theaters through Warner Bros.” He added, “But our primary goal is to bring first-run movies to our members, because that’s what they’re looking for.” Not exactly a ringing declaration of loyalty to the religion of cinema.
https://variety.com/2025/film/columns/netflix-buying-warner-bros-killing-studio-ted-sarandos-1236601216/
If you wonder what Mamdani is doing, he knows how to speak to narcissists (basically it’s about flattery) to get what he wants for NYC.
Narcissists like Trump do not care about logic or sides or loyalty. They’re not fully formed people.
They care only about being liked, yet they can’t tell if someone genuinely likes them or they just pretend to; it’s also not important as they wouldn’t be able to comprehend the difference.
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The The:
🎵 Dogs of Lust
#TheThe
https://spiritlust.bandcamp.com/album/the-undying-loyalty-of-dogs
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MGMxmXA8Kgf4Qzv5z6ImL
Imprint, which helps retailers like Brooks Brothers offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $150M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Florida's proposed loyalty oath for educators would ban atheists from becoming teachers
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/floridas-proposed-loyalty-oath-for
When I switched to using a #ridgewallet (which I quite like and recommend), I ditched all of my loyalty and "lesser" ID cards in liu of #Stocard - a mobile app with digital copies. But now Stocard is #klarna (and we…
Lawyers at the
"Office of the Legal Adviser" at the State Department, worry they will face repercussions if they suggest the administration’s plans could break domestic or international law,
and suspect they may be evaluated based on their apparent loyalty to Donald Trump and his political vision,
not their expertise and judgment, officials said.
They noted that leadership in the office has steadily and atypically become dominated by Trump’s political appo…
“The United States of America came within a few minutes of dying at the Battle of Gettysburg.
In fact, America came within seconds of being destroyed.
During those decisive moments a unit of the United States Army saved the republic.
The saviors of the Union were from Minnesota.”
https://stev…
Trump blasts pardoned Democrat as lacking "LOYALTY" (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/07/trump-cuellar-pardon-loyalty-reelection-democrat
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p34#a251207p34
The Office of Personnel Management is asking applicants for US military newspaper Stars and Stripes if they back Trump's policies; its EIC says he was unaware (Liam Scott/Washington Post)
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People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism
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Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna:
🎵 LOYALTY.
#KendrickLamar #Rihanna
https://uprootandy.bandcamp.com/track/kendrick-lamar-x-rihanna-loyalty-uproot-andy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6SwRhMLwNqEi6alNPVG00n
The extraordinary courage of Germany’s wartime ‘traitors’
With Nazi informers everywhere, any dissident risked betrayal
– and the prospect of being hanged ‘like slaughtered cattle’ for ‘defeatism’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-ex
Trump on Cuellar running as Democrat after pardon: 'Such a lack of loyalty' (Sophia Vento/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5637533-trump-pardons-cuellar-criticizes-democrat-run/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p21#a251207p21
"The Bible says love thy neighbors as you love yourself, but..."
But throw your former and now dead daughter-in-law under the bus, the mother of your grandson though she might be? 🙄
#loyalty #priority #awareness #USA #insensitive #family
Trump expects loyalty from those who benefit from him.
Days after issuing him a pardon,
Donald Trump criticized US House member
Henry Cuellar of Texas
for deciding to run for re-election as a Democrat.
Trump pardoned Cuellar and the congressman’s wife on Wednesday as they faced bribery charges.
They were alleged to have accepted thousands of dollars from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in exchange for advancing their interests.
Shortly after the pardo…