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Building a big bribe room to sell the country off for parts while the government is rapidly deconstructed into a legislatively induced coma #uspol

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#UsPol #FreeSpeech #Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension"

NBC News: Meet the Press: Zohran Mamdani says he still believes Trump a ‘fascist’ after meeting: Full interview
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"Trump administration ends government’s annual report on hunger in America"
There. Hunger problem solved. Next.
/s
#hunger #uspol #sarcasm

What an idiot. There is no "antifa" organization.
As I said before, "antifa" was what schools used to teach (since public schools were created) as good citizenship.
#trump #antifa #uspol

Building a big bribe room to sell the country off for parts while the government is rapidly deconstructed into a legislatively induced coma #uspol

Don’t worry everybody, just take Panadol.
#USpol #Tylenol

I think I need to clarify some shit for (white) liberals.
How many times have you wondered if someone you're talking to in an informant sent to entrap you? How many times have you or a friend of yours been hit by a car, intentionally? How many friends have been hit, or almost hit? Ever been stabbed? Know anyone who has? Has the FBI ever knocked on a friend's door? Have police ever kicked down your door? Have you ever been arrested? Pepper sprayed? Does the sound or smell or blast balls give you flashbacks? Do you ever wonder what all the CS exposure is doing to your body? How many times have you been shot or shot at? Do you wonder every day if this is the day they'll come to kill you? Would anyone in your social circle answer these questions differently?
When you vote, you risk nothing (big asterisk, but if I'm talking to you then it doesn't apply to you). What you get out of voting is exactly what you put into it. Direct action is the same.
If you aren't worried about someone murdering you, then you probably aren't actually threatening the system. That's the difference between voting, and doing something useful. If they had to murder all the liberals in order to keep going, fascism would end. If they're only murdering radicals and marginalized people, then you're just like all the "good Germans" who hated Hitler but did essentially nothing.
It's already that bad for some people. How much are you willing to risk? How many people are you willing to sacrifice for your comfort? These are the questions we're all thinking about every time you tell us to vote.
(I'm tagging this #USPol so it's easy for folks to filter out if they're already well acquaintaned with the horror. I'm not CW, because USPol is just expected to be triggering.)

This "executive order" system simply has to be removed from the US political system. Why is it even a thing? It's clearly not democratic...
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Apropos of nothing… #uspol

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Pretty interesting read on MTG. She's running for president?
BOMBSHELL: MTG’s Sudden Exit Blindsides GOP Leadership
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Jesus fuck. Now you’re just embarrassing the species.
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Fact Check: Is Mamdani Introducing Arabic Numerals To New York Schools?
Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.

We got ourselves an ol' fashioned cole war a comin'!
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland:
#USpol #POpol #RUpol

The hypocrisy of the right is off the charts.
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(gift article)
https://www.nytimes.co…

I'm amused by the inclusion of 'You Can’t Always Get What You Want ' in the set of music played at the Trump/Royal banquet (I think in an orchestral arrangement)
#ukpol / #uspol

I count well over 100 people out protesting in my small, relatively conservative town of Battle Ground, Washington.
So proud of everyone.
Edit: Revised count, I think approximately 250.
#USPol #NoKings

"Jack Ciattarelli has been running for governor since Mikie was in high school"
- Sean Higins
#NewJersey #uspol

Regime Change begins at home.
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#NoKings #USpol

It's always the ones you most expect.
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Update: the insurance person figured out that it was the family deductible that was still $1,000 which is why insurance didn’t take more off.
But she was lovely and found me a way to get a co-pay card for Paxlovid through the manufacturer - I used it and it made the medication FREE. From $1,000 to $0.
Link for anyone else in my predicament (you gotta have private insurance to be eligible): #COVID #US #USPol #healthcare #insurance #medicine

I really hope that the Democrats learn from their previous issues and run somebody less conservative for president, next time. (Assuming that there is a next time.)
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

🤦 Ain’t no way they actually posted this mess. 🤦
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After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
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#limerick #satire #USpol

European rulers in part saw Crusades as how to remove troublesome or ambitious warriors from Europe, reducing threats to their authority.
Starting wars in Venezuela, Afghanistan or the other dozen places potus suggested/threatened, might serve comparable purpose.
Let’s thwart him anyway.
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Hvis man Ÿnsker at vide, hvordan Nazityskland kunne udvikle sig som det gjorde i 1930'erne, kan man bare kigge på USA i dag. Og samtidig spŸrge sig selv, hvorfor amerikanerne ikke i stŸrre stil siger fra, ligesom man efter anden verdenskrig spurgte, hvorfor tyskerne ikke tidligere stoppede vanviddet. #USPol #naziTyskland

Medier sætter foden ned overfor nye presseregler i Pentagon
De nye regler er blevet kaldt "Sovjet-lignende restriktioner" for pressen.

I’m going to admit that that “Chipocalypse” post freaked me out considerably. I wonder if history will see it as a turning point in America’s extended democratic crisis? Because to this Canadian looking across the border at the USA, it has that feeling.
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"I’m not looking for money. I’d give it to charity or something.”
Yup, most of it will go to "something" and to "charities" which are actually "something". Plus the tax break from giving to "charities".
Daylight robbery.
#USA #uspol #DOJ #corruption

We got 'em!
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Want to complain about #Rx requirements for a #COVID booster in the US? #uspol
You have until September 13 to submit a written comment to the

Brad Knott R-NC is arguing against releasing the Epstein Files because people in the files may be embarassed. I wonder if he's in the file.
#epstein #Congress #uspol

When will Bigbird be stopped?!!
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We're all really used to an FBI that is incredibly evil, but generally pretty competent. They have no problem using child sex offenders to infiltrate groups of clowns. They have no problem trying to convince civil rights leaders to commit suicide. They have no problem with sowing confusion within leftists groups and trying to get them to kill each other. They've always been radically anti-left, but they've also always been competent.
Fabricating evidence in a really obvious way would always have been off the table because they wouldn't be willing to throw a case. But those competent people have been pushed out of the FBI. It's now Kash Patel's clown show. It serves the whims of the regime above all else. It will sacrifice decades of hard built trust for a quick win, because no one involved is competent enough to understand the consequences of such actions.
In the past, they may have used torture to elicit a confession. They may have entrapped people. They could have deleted exonerating evidence, but they would probably not have just completely manufactured obviously fake evidence just to forward the regime's narrative. I don't think that we've seen anything like this, at the very least in our lifetimes.
We have to foster a new level of skepticism, far beyond what we have been used to... and this is especially true of Liberals, who still don't understand the level of corruption and incompetence in local law enforcement today.
#USPol #CharlieKirk

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Is "hoping someone gets the death penalty" classified as political violence?
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That’s some free speech right there. #uspol

Discuss: The pros of having a conman president.
#uspol #discussion

I'm not sure why it took them this long to stand up against the administration. His attacks against churches, hospitals, and schools isn't new.
"'We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools,' the bishops said in a special message, the first of its kind in 12 years."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Liberals: You have a choice. When Trump comes for you, you can buckle and comply or you can radicalize and fight harder. Decide now what you're going to do, because a lot of us will die if you decide to save yourself.
We will win in the end, with or without you. But, if you survive, you will always know which choice you made and you will have to live with it.
#USPol

Won 5 Emmys for Andor, a series about autocratic breakthrough and fascism. Then greenlights turning the entire company into the theme park ride. 🤦‍♂️
#iger #USpol #BoycottDisneyABC

That’s some free speech right there. #uspol

Just a normal government employee
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What would win the next US election?
#USPol #Shitpost
An anthropomorphic guillotine
Barnaby Jones's last single
3:22 of silence from The Offspring
The WKUK "it's illegal to say" sketch

After the introduction in Dutch, it is Lubach with what’s next for disney.
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"The purpose Bolton stated of creating a group chat in which he would later share his notes...was “For Diary in the future!!!”
I believe the only/big reason #Bolton joined Trump admin was to write a book, I mean "diary", and he gathered info for that from Day 1.
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Former Disney CEO thinks Disney and ABC messed up.
Because they did.
source: #USpol

I'm gonna bump this again since it's relevant to #NoKingsDay
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Campaign Stream #10: Playing Stray / Face Hurts⭐⭐ !donate !discord by Kat Abughazaleh
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I keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
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An actual US President requires an ally to promise they'll never join NATO, all in service of Russia. 🥹
#USA #uspol #Ukraine #Russia #NATO #travesty

His name was Silverio Villegas Gonzšlez.
#USpol

Meet Robby Roadsteamer, The Man Who Trolled ICE by The Bulwark
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List of donors for White House ballroom:
BTW the cost estimate went from $200M to $300M. I suppose it will keep going up as "more donors come forward".
#USA #uspol #WhiteHouse #ballroom #waste #corruption

Gosh, Nancy Pelosi is retiring so young! I hope she's saved up enough money for retirement.
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Did you know that "James David Vance" is an anagram for "adds caveman jive?"
Well, now you do.
#USpol

So...comedy is illegal again?
#FreedomOfSpeech #Kimmel #USpol

Pelosi will *not* seek re-election!? This week just keeps getting better…
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“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
#USpol

People keep trying to point to an event where the "right/left" political violence thing got out of hand. You cannot point to anywhere in US history where the right hasn't been murdering leftists. It has never happened.
They've been talking about civil war since they lost the last one, and most of US politics before that was just trying to prevent the first one.
There isn't a wave of right/left violence. Right wing violence has just gone unchecked for so long, and been so accepted, that now they're killing each other regularly. The Trump assassination attempts were all from the right. #CharlieKirk was killed by another fascist for not being fascist enough.
Fascists have so completely taken over that they see each other as legitimate targets because they've run out of "leftists" worth murdering. That's the story. That's what people can't wrap their heads around.
Everyone is worried about the right wing response, worries about right wing escalation, but they called for civil war over the cracker barrel logo. They're already maxing out their base. All the proud boys and other Nazis are already hired by ICE. They're also already going as hard as they can. They don't need any excuses. They have total control of everything. This bumbling mess is *the best they can do.* They call for civil war every few days.
We're not seeing a war between the left and the right. We're seeing a war between the right and the far right, where both side opportunistically punch left when they can and liberals help them justify their actions.
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“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
#USpol

Fuck Elon and his money! (I was really hoping for more good news this week.)
We absolutely need to destroy the value of every company that asshole is associated with.
#USPOL

I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol

I heard a comparison where someone said:
The Republicans rob you like a stick-up. They're brazen and open about.
The Democrats rob you like a pick-pocket. They're sneaky and you don't see it happen.
Damn...
#USPOL

Wrote some stuff about what's happening. It's a little dark, I'm a little exhausted. I hope you enjoy it and subscribe.
#USpol

Kimmel and Killing
censorship and extrajudicial killing make each other more likely Just as the United States was switching broadcast television signals from analog to digital, I made my network television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! playing Thomas Prusik Parkin, who impersonated his dead mother, Irene Prusik, to collect her Social Security benefits,

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Introducing The Argument: How To Save Liberalism (Without Being Boring) by Jerusalem Demsas
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A friend of mine, who I'm pretty sure is left-leaning (meaning, in the US at least, a Democrat) asked me:
"Isn't democratic socialism different from actual socialism?"
Ohhh, where do we begin! But the good thing is, people are asking these questions... Not just straight up condemning "socialism" because of the name.
#USPOL

An older video that still has relevance today:
#USpol #radicalization

Should Democrats vote to fund the government at the end of the month?
#uspol

A lot of people seem unaware of who charlie kirk was in fact, not just fantasy.
Perhaps this can help.
Murder is bad, and violence is never a good answer.
(sources follow in comment)
#USpol #kirk

Huh, looks like we got ourselves a hot shop...
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Violence is never a good answer. You don’t know what side of it you will be on.
#USpol

$27.7 billion budget and they didn’t spring for run-flats.
Honestly, it’s really good that they’re not good at what they do.
#USpol

I’m in Chicago, first snowfall. Horrifyingly beautiful.
Beautiful because nature can be wonderful.
Horrifying because humans are too often not.
Nearby, there are federal prisoners in Broadview probably freezing to death tonight.
We each have our challenges, all are real.
May God’s mercy visit and comfort them.
And may His wrath visit their captors.
#USpol

#economics #recession #USpol

Fallujah, Iraq is ~15sq mi (~25sq km) & had ~4,000 fighters US military and allies faced in 2nd Battle of Fallujah, one of fiercest fought by US this century.
Caracas Venezuela is ~300sq mi (~433sq km) & Venezuela has ~4.5 million militia now activated.
potus & kegseth must be stopped.
#USpol

ice moving still closer to taking anyone they feel like, including natural born Americans with no criminal histories or activities, and disappearing them. Them is you, me and everyone we have ever met.
“ICE has been under immense pressure to quickly increase the number of immigrants it is arresting, with less regard for whether they have any criminal histories.”
🧵 1/4
#USpol

Bill Clinton, who was impeached for committing perjury about sex, may have committed a crime related to sex?
Wait, next are you gonna tell me water is wet?
Sex criminals should be prosecuted. Full stop.
#USpol

Feckless felonious fool claims he “took the freedom of speech away” when it comes to flag burning. That’s not how this works you sanctimonious prick.
#USpol

#USpol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee

The Pentagon is so clean on OPSEC that I’m learning National Guard in DC is canceling hotel reservations there to move to Chicago and Baltimore _from the protestors planning to meet them_.
#USpol #Chicago #Baltimore

Turns out the greatest threat to Americans is American federal security forces.
#USpol

Pure fiction.
This senior adviser to potus can’t even see that Oregon’s 6,695 sworn police officers are less numerous than the FBI’s ~13,700 special agents.
Stephen Miller shouldn’t be trusted to advise on a coffee order, let alone government policy. He is out of touch with reality.
Sources in comment.
#USpol

In accordance with Sec. 2. (e) of Executive Order 14190, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” as signed by potus on January 29, 2025, the U.S. Government will _not_ be "modifying a [Department]'s name," despite SecDef and potus' desires for the Department of Defense's “social transition.”
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#USpol

He doesn't know what tariffs are or how they work, and how the Constitution works.
Great choice of leader Texas.
#USpol #TXpol #tariffs