#deep politics

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https://archive.org/details/whiteout-the-cia-drugs-and-the-press-1999-alexander-cockburn/mode/2up

[pageturner001]

With Trump looking on track to win, I just want to give some hope for people right now.

The Senate is Republican, but two years in the future a third of the Senate will be reelected, meaning Trump has at most 2 years to work with an agreeable Senate

Whether or not Trump goes through with project 2025 or not, this will most definitely be our last term with him

If he doesn't do what he promised, his voter base will get mad they didn't get what they voted for

If he does do what he promised, his voter base will get mad when they realise tariffs=higher costs and when their taxes don't decrease

People WILL protest in their states and nationally and either a) Trump listens or b) Trump ignores it and people become more disillusioned with him

There is no way Trump will do something that can't be reversible or managed by the later President

If Trump supporters do become disillusioned, we could see a blue midterm

1/2 of Congress is needed to pass a bill

Just take a breath. It isn't going to be great, but we can and will survive.

[wolfythewitch]

Okay actual tma sona LMAO. He's just a waterlogged little guy

[queenoftheantz]

hi yes hello a friend gave my baldurs gate 3 for my birthday and is now painstakingly teaching me how to use the controls

Meet my little cosmic horror protagonist Luvtröja!! They are just a little guy!! They like sitting in chairs :]

[robotclownindulgence]

he would not have made it through the first day tbh

[uncanny-tranny]

"Treatment" for addiction that requires you to lock up, confine, coerce, or otherwise strip addicts of their autonomy, it isn't treatment. It is a revenge fantasy that prioritizes your desire for subjugation over the actual betterment of addicts.

[marinememes]

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s Wet Beast is: Sea Pig

Olive’s wet beast fact: Unlike the stupid pigs on land, the sea pig has never been elected president.

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

[lifemod17]

Welp

[jangillman]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

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https://archive.org/details/5a1cd53e-640b-46e7-82a6-d95bc4907e36/mode/2up

This compelling volume traces deep state conflicts and convergences through central cases in the development of American political economic power — JFK/Dallas, LBJ/Gulf of Tonkin, and Nixon/Watergate. Rigorously documented and unflinchingly analyzed, “The Spectacle of the False Flag” provides a stunning example of a new criminological practice���one that takes the state seriously, making the inner workings of the state rather than its effects the primary object of study. Drawing upon a wealth of historical records and developing the theoretical insights of Guy Debord’s writings on spectacular society, Wilson offers a glimpse into a necessary criminology to come.

[the-orange-shit-stain-scam]

On July 18th, 2015, I realized that the Republican Party had left me behind. On this day, while seeking the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump had the following to say about an Annapolis graduate who was shot down, captured and tortured as a POW by the communist North Vietnam regime:

“He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

This verbal diarrhea came out of the mouth of a man who used his father’s wealth and privilege to dodge the draft five different times due to his “bone spurs”. Donald Trump is a traitor, a repeated draft dodger and the largest fraud in the history of our country.

[bixels]

The more I think about it, the more I question Arcane S2's politics and themes, which were so foundational to S1. Like, a tiny example [SPOILERS AHEAD]:

Singed wins. He gets exactly what he wants in the end. All his "efforts" are rewarded. What does that say about people who share his ideology of eugenics? He is the source of nearly every horrible thing and conflict that happened (Shimmer, the factory deaths, Jinx, Vander as Warwick, the corruption of Viktor), and he gets a happier ending than any other character. Not even a 'he got what he wanted but he has become completely unrecognizable/monstrous to his daughter' tag at the end. You can say they're setting him up and need to open his daughter to future shows, but the way you end a character's story says something about what you think about that character. What does it say when the eugenicist war criminal gets the happy ending he doesn't deserve?

[rotzaprachim]

sitting here thinking about the fact that the US had the option of tim walz, the most beer and pretzels middle america midwest lutheran high school football coach white man you could ever think to get, and when he actually pushed measures advocating on behalf of white working class american people like school meals for their children and free tampons in high schools he was called some kind of beta male urban elite commie cuck who couldn't possibly know how to fix real american's problems half so well as a nyc billionaire did.

when the democrats actually did put forward practical measures for everyday people they got burned for it, and then idiots have the chutzpah to say they lost because they didn't go far enough left

[myokk]

Eloise at her debut ball during the winter solstice🥺🤲