#Donald Dunn

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“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.”

“Hit it.”

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Don't Mess with Cupid by Otis Redding from the album The Dock of the Bay - Video from the TV show The !!!! Beat

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This guy fucks

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JARRICH FF FOR THE HUNGRY 🎉🎉

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Sharing Jared’s flat has done wonders for Richard. He doesn’t have those big, dark bags under his eyes anymore, he eats three meals a day, and he’s smiling all the time. Sometimes, it takes getting down on your luck to really get back up. He doesn’t even know why he insisted on staying at Elrich’s for so long. Honestly, he hasn’t been this good in years… until Jared brings home one of his dates one night.

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Jared Dunn/Richard Hendricks

Characters: Jared Dunn, Richard Hendricks, Monica Hall, Bertram Gilfoyle, Dinesh Chugtai, Nelson Bighetti, Jian Yang (Silicon Valley)

Additional Tags: Domesticity, Sharing an apartment, Jared is a sweetheart as always, Oblivious Jared, Oblivious Richard, just two dumbasses in love, Sharing a Bed, Jealous Richard, Richard takes control of his life like a very unsure kid on a tricycle

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[tomorrowusa]

« [W]hat has long been evident is that Putin’s presidency has been little different from the Soviet era, in that he has made Russia a military giant but an economic dwarf. His gangster state has never been able to diversify; while the world buys Chinese cars and American software, the only thing we buy from Russia is oil, and the gradual turning away from hydrocarbons will eventually expose this as an appalling waste of a country’s potential. »

— Will Dunn at The New Statesman.

What is now tanking Russia is essentially what tanked the Soviet Union – a lopsidedly bad economy. And what barely keeps the sputtering Russian economy from totally collapsing is oil.

So Russia is now a badly run petrostate under the control of a nostalgic dictator who is trying to restore the Soviet Union in all but name – as miserable as that sounds.

One irony of Donald Trump's "drill! drill! drill!" policy (if it actually works) is that it would help undermine Russia's only major source of income.

For the Russian economy, however, Trump represents a looming risk, because however exceptional Putin believes his country to be, Russian prosperity ultimately depends on Western consumers. The reason for this is that Russia runs on oil. With most of its gas exports to Europe stopped by pipeline closures and sanctions, it has become an economy dependent on a single commodity, and while oil prices are high, money flows into the Russian current account. What scares the Russian central bank is the risk of a global financial slowdown that reduces consumer demand around the world, and therefore the price of the oil that is intrinsic to manufacturing and trade. That is exactly the world Trump is promising: a world of de-globalisation and trade barriers.

As I mentioned a few days ago, people in the West need to stop overestimating the strength of Russia. It has a couple of million people involved in its military or military industries, but they are poorly trained and not particularly motivated. Russia may have a lot of weapons, but those are almost always inferior to Western equivalents; many date back to the USSR and are even physically rusty.

At the beginning of this century Russia had the potential to become another Germany in economic terms. It had the talent and adequate infrastructure. But under Putin, Russia has become a parody of the Brezhnev-era USSR – but perhaps even worse. Putin's disaster in Ukraine makes Brezhnev's debacle in Afghanistan seem like a day at the beach. Putin has unintentionally let the world see how pitiful his military is and put on full international display the decrepit nature of Russia's economy.

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Donald "Duck" Dunn 

November 24, 1941 – May 13, 2012

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Stuff from Poshmark

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Babygirl you're so particular I need you

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christopher dunne chris and john are both white man names chris = john using substitution this means that johntopher dunne is correct if we do some re-formatting it is dunne john topher if we switch the U and the second O we get donne john tupher if we cut the top off the H and combine the first 2 n's we get dome john tupner switch the m and the n to get done john tupmer once again do some reformatting to get done john trumpe if we move the e to the first word, take one e and rotate it to turn it into an a, we get donae john trump warp the e to turn it into an l and d by cutting off the bottom curve and straightening it, and then stretching the straight line at the bottom of the top half of the e and then rotate them to get donald john trump christopher dunne = donald john trump

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(via JHALAL DRUT: Donald “Duck” Dunn)

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Tramp (Lowell Fulson cover) by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas

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Blues Brothers art dump :0 all this is part of my Blues Brothers fanzine project i’m currently working on 🤙

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Peter Montgomery at Right Wing Watch:

The New York Times profiled the MAGA movement organization America First Policy Institute this week. AFPI was created as a sort of Trump administration in exile after voters dumped Donald Trump from office. AFPI has provided jobs and salaries to a lot of Trump loyalists, who are working to put Trump—and themselves—back into power. And they’re preparing to make the most of that power. AFPI’s own version of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda for a new administration reportedly includes nearly 300 executive orders for a returning Trump to sign. Right Wing Watch reported last year on an AFPI summit called “Laying the Groundwork for the Next America First Administration,” at which the group’s president Brooke Rollins bragged about the “revolutionary” nature of its ambitions to “seize control of the administrative state and use it—while also dismantling it,” describing “an America First confrontation against anti-conservative institutions.”

Now that there’s bad blood between MAGA insiders and the Heritage Foundation over the unfavorable publicity Project 2025 brought Trump’s campaign, AFPI is positioned to be in control of the transition team and domestic policy agenda if Trump wins. One example of what that could look like: the Times reports that AFPI’s plan to allow Trump to fire federal employees and replace them with political loyalists is even more radical than Project 2025’s proposal—it would essentially turn the entire federal workforce into a political patronage system. 

One important aspect of AFPI’s work that this week’s Times story did not explore is AFPI’s partnership with dominionist Lance Wallnau and his “Courage Tour” to turn out conservative Christian voters in crucial swing-state counties in the upcoming election. As the Times noted, one of AFPI’s funders and board members is Texas pastor-billionaire Tim Dunn, whose funding and theocratic vision have been aggressively pushing the Texas Republican Party further to the far right. 

Right Wing Watch has reported that the Courage Tour blends religious revivalism, spiritual warfare rhetoric, right-wing politics, and targeted voter turnout work all designed to overcome “demonic strongholds” and put Trump back into the White House. Some other media reports on the Courage Tour have noted the partnership and described the participation of America First Works—AFPI’s political action affiliate—and its voter registration efforts. Wallnau and AFPI have focused on 19 crucial counties in swing states that they believe could swing the election for Trump with increased turnout from MAGA-minded Christians. 

The extent of the partnership between AFPI and New Apostolic Reformation dominionists like Wallnau is revealed in video from a Michigan stop on the Courage Tour in May. Wallnau described AFPI as “the group I work with,” adding that it “is holding the key appointment for the hoped-for Trump administration….They’ve got all the placeholders for who’s going in.”  Wallnau introduced Richard Rogers, who is affiliated with Georgia-based MAGA pastor Jentezen Franklin’s Free Chapel church, and who is serving as AFPI’s national director of faith engagement. He got that assignment, Rogers said, when AFPI called Franklin saying that the movement did not have enough resources on the ground to actually do the necessary voter registration and turnout in those targeted counties. Rogers went to work, he said, and now AFPI has a “faith department” that has been built “to put boots on the ground to motivate the voters in those states to turn the tide on the election in 2024—and we’re doing it.”

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has an agenda that is more radical than even the discredited mess that Project 2025.

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