#defunding the military is a great fucking start

[sassypotatoe1]

America disproportionately funds crime response and the military because oil and destabilizing economies are great motivators for war for the money-and-profit-is-priority country.

The prison industrial complex is modern day slavery, using the system to imprison poor people and poc for petty crimes (if you don't believe it why do rich white pedophile syndicates get away with trafficking children but black teens get charged as adults and sentenced the maximum sentence for possessing recreational amounts of Marijuana) and then making them work without pay as a condition of their sentence.

The military industrial complex starts wars in territories that have nothing to do with the us, all for the profit, and then they don't even give their vets a pension and social safety net when they come back disabled and traumatized from fighting a greedy rich white bastard's war.

If the us defunded police and the military, they could house the homeless (there are supposedly more empty houses than homeless people in the US), increase access to quality education, increase access to Healthcare and other public services, and decrease the cost of living. Do you know the effect of doing these things? LESS CRIME!!!! An educated, fed, housed and cared for population won't need to resort to petty crime to survive. If more public funding went to just libraries alone, all the benefits mentioned before will happen, but so will a decrease in unemployment.

You can research, draft and with the help of librarians perfect a CV, and print it, and then you can find a job easier than when you didn't have a CV. You can check emails at the library, get help with schooling, or just get a warm place to hang around in in the winter if you're homeless. (if you think homeless people hanging around in a library is bad go reconsider your life experience and learn and grow. If they're not actively damaging property or like, actually harassing, not asking for help just genuinely treating other patrons badly, they deserve to be there just as much as you. Your feelings about their presence don't matter. Go fuck yourself).

Libraries provide kids with education support where schooling fails because of poor government funding in *certain* areas (areas that aren't majority white middle class homeowners). Study groups, reading resources, internet, printing, all resources that improve a child's chances of getting a good education and being able to achieve more with a little support. A kid that's educated and working doesn't need to steal food or sell drugs to survive.

So like even if you took a fraction of the military budget and ONLY put it into public libraries, you'll see a society that's more educated, with a lower unemployment rate, more productive, and as a result more profitable, which imo that last one shouldn't be the motivator for caring for your citizens but I am talking mostly about capitalist America and I know my audience.

Defund the police. Fund public libraries.

[whoneedssexed]

The US military should not exist. This is not trans rights. Trans ppl do not have the right to destroy other countries for a job.

Trans ppl shouldn't be in it, cis ppl shouldn't be in it. The WAR Department will NEVER be socially positive.

This is not progress, not what we've been asking for.

THIS IS NOT TRANS RIGHTS Actually do something. Do not pretend like this old fuck had done anything for us.

I’ll just copy and paste what I said in a discord server.

Banning people for being trans from anywhere sets a precedent to ban us from anywhere, not to mention the language used always implies we're “psychotic”, unfit for responsibility or employment or reliability, and that we're dangerous and predatory and can't be trusted. So I also hard disagree on trans or any marginalized group banning in the military. 

Discrimination doesn't protect anyone, it just calls people too inferior and disgusting to be worth acknowledging and allowing to exist. Doesn't matter if you disapprove of the place they're banned from. It's never going to end in our favor, it always is a foot in the door method to stripping our rights. 

That's why the shithead who refused to bake a gay wedding cake was an issue. You think we want to go to their bakery after that? Fucking no, but them being allowed to do that says others can, says it's fine to hate us to the extent of seeing us unworthy of them and keeping us from things. 

 Idk how to explain segregation bad

Like after trump was allowed to do that, he went after our protections in education and employment. If I'm banned from working one job, then he knows he can ban me from others. Like that was literally the plan, the same tactics anti abortion groups use

Nobody said anything about social positivity or the “right to destroy other countries”.

Get your head out of your ass and understand what it means when a group of people are legally disbarred from doing something that anyone else can do. Otherwise you sound like a libertarian who doesn’t support LGBT+ marital rights because “marriage shouldn’t even be an institution” and doesn’t think it matters since you can get everything else anyway.

It’s about the fact that it shows as us an inherently lesser class and that there’s a “good reason” we’re not allowed. 

I don’t give a g-d damn about the military or the wars or anything. You might notice about the only thing we post regarding these things are, you know, people being killed or abused and assaulted, or people committing suicide, or trauma, etc. IE negativity. 

For that reason, I think you don’t even know us, don’t even follow us, and are just running around with your “everyone’s a warhawk if trans people can have this job” garbage to anyone who speaks about this issue. 

I’ll dig in my heels all day every day about trans people being allowed to fucking exist the same way anyone else fucking does. Get over it.  Banning trans people doesn’t do a damn thing about imperialism no matter how much you scream that we shouldn’t be around. Shut your liberal ass up with your false target bullshit and go make some real change about it.

- mod BP

[kinnoth]

What's your take on Thor Ragnarok? What's your take on Thor's development within the MCU so far?I'm a fan of your posts and tags!

GREAT QUESTIONS THANK YOU FOR ASKING, THANKS FOR BEING A FAN

tldr I """"like"""" Thor's canon development now bc I've done some fucking Olympic grade backfilling and contortion to recontextualize the canon to make it meaningful, but this results in me living in my own pocket universe of an interpretation where I can't really interact with other people bc they don't subscribe to my exact reading of canon

But bro I LOVE Ragnarok. I know that can be a controversial take (I've read the meta of people who think it "slaughtered" Thor and Loki's characterisations), but I just thought it was so much fun! Like on a movie watching experience level and on a lore/meta level, it's FUN. That's not something I can say for 95% of marvel movies, which are nigh universally too dimly lit and too reliant on hateful sarcasm between characters as a substitute for a relationship.

On a meta level, I 1000% subscribe to the idea that the entire movie is a retelling that Thor is preforming for his refugees, so it's a heavily edited, exaggerated, and sillier version of events meant to keep everyone's spirits up. On the point of lore continuity, I really appreciate that thor3 makes CANON and EXPLICIT Odin's campaign of imperialist violence behind his "peaceful" reign over the nine realms, I FUCKIN LOVE IT. I LOVE the context Hela gives to their family, because she makes canon and explicit Odin's disappointments in Thor. I LOVE that Mjolnir was Hela's weapon before it was Thor's because Mjolnir was never meant to be a metric for moral goodness or readiness for rule, but a metric for a colonialist's commitment to imperialist violence on behalf of an empire WHICH IS WHY IT FINDS CAPTAIN AMERICA WORTHY BUT NOT LOKI

(btw if anyone else can draw a line between Hela and Steve Rogers that is a. representative of Odin's priorities and b. includes Thor but excludes Loki, hmu, bc this is the best I got.)

(Mjolnir rejects Thor in thor1 bc Thor was trying to conquer Jotunheim for personal glory and doesn't accept him again until he starts thinking about the good of the empire again by protecting Midgard, an imperial asset. Mjolnir rejects Loki bc Loki is a not an imperialist in service of an empire)

Off topic but I know a lot of people get hung up on Thor leaving Loki paralyzed in the parking garage, potentially to be found by the grandmasters dudes? Like people say that was unaccountably cruel and ooc for Thor. But like, ok, they killed everyone on the way up, and Thor knows his armed gladiator rebellion is on his heels also headed for the parking garage, so I dunno, I never read it as Loki was in any particular danger? But I'm a notorious Thor apologist as well as a Loki apologist so 🤷‍♂️

Things I also love: loki defunding the military to spend that money on art and infrastructure, Loki's live action thorki fanfic that Asgard unaccountably loved, Loki stonewalling Odin's attempt to reconcile bc fuck Odin, Thor's lightning powers, Bruce banner is now a Jewish grandma, Hela have I mentioned Hela love that girlboss, Jeff goldblum love that wiggly man, the Valkyrie love that angry girl, "piss off ghost", inglorious deaths for all the warriors 3, "I'm here" (screaming, crying, shaking), the story about how Loki bit Thor as a snake as well as the confirmation that they are in fact the same age

I have complicated feelings about Thor's canon development tbh. On a very ground floor sort of reaction, I despise what they did to My Boy in infinity war and endgame. I think it's a disgusting character assassination and I don't think the russos understand humour and specifically how to use humour to expand on tragedy like what thor3 did.

On the other hand, if you've read my fic and meta, you'll know that I've accepted the canon development, bc at this point, I've done a LOT of very deliberate and concerted labour to MAKE the canon development we see between thor1 and endgame WORK. But, like, there was a LOT of labour that I, specifically, put into it. It fully relies on me specifically doing a lot of digging and reaching and mining these movies for every possible frame of content to the point where I am pretty sure I've put more effort into making all the development make continuous sense than any of the screenwriters put into the actual development.

And I think I've probably just drank too much of my own Kool aid but like, I am in a position now where I do think my interpretation of Thor's character development is THE most complete and accurate reading of his character development. Key to these points are: a) I think he is an ex-imperialist who is currently and actively trying to deprogram himself from the colonialists' mindset that Odin instilled within him b) he is trying to deprogram himself from Asgard's culture of extreme toxic masculinity wherein he was not taught to have any sort of emotional processing that did not involve physical violence c) Loki is/was/always will be the person he loves best

So like, as I try to show in my thorki canonverse fics (shameless plug for myself), I can make most of the bad decisions made about Thor's character in infinity war and endgame work if I recontextualize all of his canon actions with my own (well supported, well documented) headcanon'd baggage. Of course he goes on a death wish mission to get revenge on Thanos -- he has a literal deathwish bc he was already supposed to die with Loki. Of course he sinks into an unshakeable depression afterwards -- he has no identity now that he has no family bc he was never taught to live by himself or for himself. Of course he leaves new Asgard and abdicates his rule -- he hasn't wanted a hand in the dirty business of Empire ever since Odin's ambition got his mom and brother killed in thor2, and that hasn't changed. I try to make him go through all the canon-implied feelings and anxieties and doubts in front of the reader. My entire goal of this is that people read my shit, then look at canon and think "oohh that context DOES make it better!" I will be gratified if that is the case.

(The only thing I cannot fix is the bit in endgame where Thor walks past Loki's Tupperware cell and the narrative doesn't come to a screeching fucking halt as Thor has so many feelings that he has some sort of paralytic breakdown where he simultaneously wants to commit Time Crime (tm) so he can just stay here forever and also wishes he could just die here, next to loki, like he was always supposed to. Like, that needed to happen to really lynchpin all of my work together into one smooth, problem free reading, but I'm not allowed to have nice things so)

(oh also I didn't like Thor calling frigga "mom". Shouldn't it at least be "mum"? I think "mother" is best tbh, bc I don't really read them as having that sort of relationship, see "toxic masculinity", see also "homosocial socialisation")

(and ok I get that it was a nice moment for Thor to call the hammer back to his hand, and I get that it even still works with my headcanon that mjolnir finds Thor worthy still bc Thor is defending the imperial asset that is Midgard, but like God damnit. The uncritical and unquestioning use of that word "worthy" when he catches the hammer again. Like worthy of what you guys? Do you ever ask yourself that question bc I very much do. I kinda wish they didnt bring it up at all, or if they did, it didn't come back to Thor's hand and he is just like, wistfully, "that's all right, I suspected as much. I'm such a different man now, mjolnir doesn't recognize me. I don't think I'd be alive right now if I had been the same man I was")

Wow that got long, anyway, thanks for chatting with me! Again, always a pleasure to field asks!

[anexperimentallife]

So we finally got rid of the orange shitgibbon, and that's great.

Now everyone who urged us to be quiet and wait until Jim Crow Joe was elected to push him left? Start pushing or shut the fuck up.

We need M4A, GND including a fracking ban, ranked choice voting, defund the police & military and an end to US-sponsored genocide around the world just as a START.

If you're satisfied with lip service and a few crumbs (and yes, 15 an hour is crumbs) from a guy who has made his career by lying almost as often as the orange shitgibbon, blatantly putting the interests of his corporate owners over those of his constituents, and pushing white supremacist authoritarian policy, you're part of the reason the US is a shithole country run by a handful of oligarchs instead of a developed democracy.

70% of Americans want universal Healthcare, and most of the 30% against it are only against it because they've been lied to about it. Jim Crow Joe and the rest of the grifters have no excuse to not fight for it.

[glycerineclown]

chapter one of while the iron’s hot is coming out tuesday!

the author’s note is 767 words, so i’m posting it here ahead of time to make sure people will read it. thanks!

NOTES ON THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

Frank finished his last tour with the USMC at the age of 29, and it’s been 13 years since then when this story begins, so Frank is 42 years old. Cerberus never happened, and while Curtis and Bill are also veterans, the three of them did not serve together (only because I wouldn’t believe that they’re all kinky and in the same unit). I’ve aged Bill up to his early 40s as well, to make his in-story history more plausible. To ease any minds up-front, he’s “Billy the Beaut” in this fic, not a villain. I have aged Amy (“Rachel”) up to 22. Karen’s childhood from Daredevil S3 is the same, and now she’s a journalist, but I’m ignoring everything else (the stuff with Union Allied never happened, so she never met Nelson & Murdock, et cetera). Karen has not been aged up. No superpowers!

I’ve tried to make the above information obvious in the text, but some of it may be blink-and-you’ll-miss-it. There are of course other changes besides these, but I don’t want to spoil it.

(Me? Do an actual full AU that’s not constrained to the bounds of canon? Good heavens!)

I’m also going to discuss Kilgrave (“The Purple Man”) from Jessica Jones—in this fic he’s still an absolutely vile and abusive rapist scumbag, but has no actual mind control abilities. Any relationships described will be in the past and will not include Karen.

NOTES ON THE BDSM

I have done a decent amount of research, and have tried to offer a pretty accurate description of the way things work in the real life BDSM community if you live in a big city. When it comes to Frank and Karen, though, this is a fantasy built for the characters.

In this fic, Frank (as a more seasoned member of the community) takes Karen (newbie sub) under his wing as a mentor. They partake in some regularly-scheduled, non-sexual BDSM play, and Karen has a crush on him, which is a lie by omission on her part. Their relationship becomes way too intense and involved to be a platonic, healthy mentor-pupil relationship. A mentor is supposed to be someone that the pupil does not play with and isn’t attracted to, in order to limit the amount of influence the mentor has over someone who is still learning. I do think this is a good rule, and this fic probably illustrates a lot of the reasons why it’s a good rule, especially because not everyone will have the same rigid principles that Frank does.

Regardless, this is just a fanfic, and following that rule would not have made a good fanfic. I don’t expect that anybody who’s here to read this anyway will actually have a problem with the way the story plays out, but your mileage may vary and I wanted to acknowledge it.

At the end of the day, I trust Frank and that’s why I’m writing this fic. You trust Frank and that’s why you’re reading it.

Also, BDSM is in no way a stand-in for therapy. Frank should go to therapy, Karen should go to therapy, everyone should go to therapy. And I think it’s a harmful stereotype that people who are into BDSM have mental health issues or serious trauma, but like, there’s no getting around that with this fandom.

NOTES ON THE CURRENT STATE OF THE WORLD

I started writing this fic in early April 2020 during the coronavirus lockdown. And we all know what's happening now, in June 2020. There are protests happening around the globe to demand justice for black people who have been murdered by police in the United States.

I would like to acknowledge that the optics of The Punisher are not great at the moment. I don't love promoting a fanfic about a character that, at least in the comic books, "means so much to the law enforcement community," as Jon has reminded us at literally every opportunity. As far as I'm concerned, that really just means that Frank has long been a power fantasy for white supremacist cops who want to kill black people with impunity. And then there's the whole Karen thing...

So even though this fic is not about police or even about the military, I feel obligated to say this here: DEFUND AND DEMILITARIZE THE POLICE. INVEST IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR. BLACK LIVES MATTER! And fuck every pickup truck I see on the highway with a Punisher bumper sticker. I will send you a dirty look from the safety of my car.

I considered postponing the release of this first chapter, but I want to add something nice to your newsfeed.

Here’s how I’ve been getting through lockdown—here’s hoping it’ll help you. To all my lonely, touch-starved, horny readers out there, who just want me to shut up and get on with the story already, this one’s for you.

[duhragonball]

On Twitter, there’s a new movement that started up on... Thursday, I guess, with the hashtag #SpeakingOut, where women were encouraged to call out instances of sexual abuse.     I’m not sure if it started with the pro wrestling community or not, because earlier in the week I saw some stuff about comic book pros like Warren Ellis and Cameron Stewart, but maybe that was a precursor.   All I know is that right now, I’ve been seeing all sorts of names being dropped in the pro wrestling business, each of them accused of being sexual predators, or covering up for the crimes of others.    Some of the names I don’t recognize, because they’re independent wrestlers from promotions I’m not familiar with, but I’ve seen some names I do know, and that’s pretty tough to take.   I’m going to discuss this here. 

Predictably, I’ve seen some backlash to #SpeakingOut, which reminds me of the same bullshit talking points used by the #IStandWithVic crowd last year.   In case you didn’t know, Vic Mignogna was a voice actor who worked for Funimation and provided the dub performances for Broly in DBZ, and Eward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist.   I think those were his two most famous roles.   Over the decades, Vic garnered a reputation for being a sex pest, kissing and inappropriately touching women and teenage girls at conventions, and harassing his colleagues.  I assume the release of the “Dragon Ball Super: Broly” movie in the U.S. in 2019 precipitated a newfound interest in those allegations, and fans started objecting to his bookings at 2019 conventions.    By mid-year, Vic was fired from Funimation and RoosterTeeth, and he responded to this by starting an ill-advised defamation lawsuit.   

Vic’s defenders are, to put it mildly, idiots.    There were professional lawyers on Twitter who explained, very clearly, why this lawsuit was a bad idea.   The main reason being that it was done in Texas, which has a lot of laws designed to make it harder to sue people for defamation.    I think Vic’s goal was to find some way to punish his accusers for making him look bad and getting him fired.   Winning the lawsuit, was a way for him and his supporters to feel like they “cleared his name”, except that was never how it worked.   If he had been arrested and tried for sex pest crimes, the burden of proof would be on his accusers to show that he really did bad things.   But he was suing people for slander, so that means the burden of proof was on him to show that they really were saying things that were demonstrably false and damaging to his reputation.    The main problem with that is everyone had been talking about his sex pestery for years, so it doesn’t make sense to single a few people out in 2019 and blame them for reinforcing something everyone already believed.  But the ISWV crowd kept insisting that this distinction didn’t matter, and that it was wrong to ostracize or turn against Vic without “proof”.   I see the same demands for “proof” being tossed around for all these wrestling personalities.  

I think there’s a couple of things going on with this.   One is simple denial.   If you’re a fan of someone and you find out they did something terrible, you really don’t want to believe it.   I was never that into a lot of these guys, but I know I felt pretty low when I first heard about Vic’s shenanigans, because I liked his work.    And I’m feeling that way about Warren Ellis now.   Not a huge fan, but I liked some of his stuff, and now I feel a little guilty by association for ever liking that stuff in the first place.   It would be nice, I suppose, to just pretend that I hadn’t heard those accusations, or that they weren’t real.    Then I could just go back to the way things were before, without all the uncomfortableness.   I just can’t do that, but it seems like a lot of people can and will.   It’s not about “proof”, it’s about putting up some sort of barrier that will excuse them from confronting an unpleasant truth. 

I think this is why you see people going out of their way to defend Christopher Columbus and Confederate monuments.    They want to believe that there was something noble about that stuff, because the alternative is to admit that a lot of the things they learned in school aren’t true, and a lot of the “heritage” they cling to is built on white supremacy and slavery.    I don’t think anyone really cares about a Robert E. Lee statue, but I’ve seen people go out of their way to try to say Lee opposed slavery, like he’s one of the good Confederates, so he should get a pass.   Except he did own slaves, and even if he hadn’t, he still fought to defend a nation founded on slavery as a guiding principle.    Tearing down a statue of Lee is a tacit admission that Lee never deserved a statue in the first place, and everyone who admired him was wrong, and maybe the admiration was rooted in racism all along.   That’s a bitter pill for people to swallow, and a lot of them just refuse to swallow it.   So they deny and deflect, and do anything they can to make this about something else.   

The other side of it is just plain hatred.   I don’t know if Vic’s defenders were all misogynists to begin with, but it seems like they all got there, one way or another.   The train of thought always seemed to be “He didn’t do these things, but even if he did there’s nothing wrong with it.”   From what I saw, it really seemed like Vic’s backers were all fired up about defending a man’s right to creep on women in any way he sees fit.   “What, so kissing is illegal now?” No, jackass, but when you’re fifty-fucking-five and you kiss a seventeen-year-old girl who only wanted to take a picture with you, it’s pretty damn messed up.    When you use your celebrity status to try to mack on young fans, that’s messed up.   When you’re an established wrestler and you try to take advantage of up-and-coming wrestlers, that’s messed up.    And some of that behavior is totally illegal, but the sad reality is that most of these creeps will never get prosecuted for any of it.   That’s why the calls for “proof” are so hollow, because everyone knows it’ll never end up in a courtroom.  At best, some of these guys will get fired, and guess what?  “Innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t apply to employers.   I lost a job once because my “teamwork” wasn’t good enough, and that was the closest thing to an explanation I got.    Don’t bullshit me about “proof”.

I guess I should tie this train of thought in with Black Lives Matter while I’m at it.    I find it absurd that the police in this country are so out of touch that when there’s a nationwide protest against police brutality, their immediate response is... more brutality.   This, more than anything I’ve seen, is the reason to defund the police.    They appear to only have the one mode of conduct, and they don’t even know how to do things a different way.    If the situation is this bad, we may as well scrap the police as they are and start over.   If the cops wanted to fix this situation, all they have to do is treat people with respect and hold themselves accountable, but they can’t let go of their hatred for five fucking minutes and figure that out.   This is why you hear about those guys who make up stories about restaurants spitting in their food.   They’re paranoid that everyone’s out to get them because they know they deserve to face some consequences, so they’re constantly on guard for this sort of thing.  It’s sick. 

Somehow, people who support these guys end up supporting the very behavior they were supposed to be denying.    Maybe this is why Columbus is such a sticking point.   I never gave a shit about Columbus.   One of my high school yearbooks had a Columbus theme because it just happened to come out on the 500th anniversary of his first voyage to North America, but I never understood what that had to do with my high school.   I think there’s people that want to give him tons of credit, basically thank him for everything that’s happened in the Western Hemisphere since 1500, not in spite of his atrocities, but to retroactively justify them.   What I mean is, if you can convince society that Columbus was a great man, and that his achievements outweigh his wrongdoing, then you can also convince society that the wrongdoings aren’t actually that bad.    “The price of progress,” they can say.    It’s like the idea that Robert E. Lee is admired solely for his “brilliant” military mind.   His side lost the fucking war, so I never understood how he gets all this credit for being a great general.    The point is that if you can convince people that he was a noble man in spite of the slavery thing, then you can open the door to the idea that the Confederacy as a whole wasn’t That Bad, and that only opens the door to the idea that slavery wasn’t That Bad, and so on.  

Same deal with Roman Polansky and Woody Allen.    It amazes me that people will still try to defend those fucks, but it probably has a lot to do with all the other sex pests in Hollywood, who hope that everyone will stick up for them when they get exposed.   So you have this little chesnut about how “Yeah, they did bad things, but they sure made some good movies.”     The implication is that you have to accept a few sex crimes if you want good art.    And no, that’s not true, and even if it were true, it wouldn’t be worth it.   

I don’t know where things will end up with J.K. Rowling.   I’d like to think that one of these days, she’ll wake up and apologize for all this TERF rhetoric she’s been spouting.    That would probably be the best-case scenario.   More likely, she’ll cause an entire generation of Harry Potter fans to wrestle with their loyalty to her books.   There’s no job to fire her from, no laws to punish her, no government agency to step in.    She’s got no financial stake in repairing this PR damage.   There’s going to be an audience of bigots that will still kiss up to her no matter what she says, so her ego will be well-insulated.    Maybe a hundred years from now, people will be talking about tossing her statue in a river, as society admits that we don’t need to accept transphobia in exchange for YA literature.   

I don’t know, I think I went all over the place with this one, but I had a lot to get off my chest.   I think the overall lesson from this year is that we can’t put these people on pedestals.   Some of them are just hell-bent on letting us down, and it’s just a matter of time before their misdeeds are brought to light.   I see these dopes with Thin Blue Line flags and “I stand with [X]” hashtags and I’m like “Who are you supporting here?    What is it you’re standing for, exactly?   Why should they be worthy of your loyalty?”    And I think the answer is less about loyalty to a person or group, and more about sticking it to someone else.   Women, minorities, whoever.   They just want to stand by someone to spite someone else.    And that’s awful.   

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I don't remember if I've talked about this here before. But while my politics are extremely informed by being raised in a community of communist and socialist queer people who lived through the height of criminalization, my *praxis* comes from my advisor in undergrad.

You see, she was an anthropologist who had spent a great deal of her life studying the cultural mechanisms of societal creation and destruction. Aka, how a society is born and how it is erased from history. That's.....a shockingly wide field of study, and for a while her focus within it was genocidiers. Picture, for a moment, an elderly, fluffy blonde haired white woman no more than 5'4" who will calmly describe to a classroom of 20 somethings what it feels like to investigate a mass grave while the military that likely did the killing is watching you. A woman who told us that if we wanted to be academics we needed to decide now just how much we were willing to risk our lives because if we accidentally stumbled into a field with a high death rate it could well be our fault our friends get murdered. A woman who never hid from us what it meant to speak truth to the powerful because too many of her own colleagues and companions had died doing it.

I was 20 when I was her advisee, not even old enough to drink in my home country, but she knew how many of us wanted to change the world or write meaningful research for our communities that were historically treated without respect or autonomy. She also knew that when you research indigenous communities in the Amazon, you are much more likely to get merked by resource companies like oil or logging. Yes. The companies themselves kill people, even "journalists and academics". It actually happens a lot. Land conflicts cost a lot of money, and field journalists/academics aren't typically supportive of the methods companies use to win. In the past 3 years, at least 201 people have been killed in the Amazon River Region, many of them field jounalists and academics trying to support local indigenous communities against land grabs.

To have our advisor sit down with us and explicitly describe the survival risks of our chosen field was life-changing. I was there to better understand my own place in the world, and while I had anticipated stress and conflict and defunding and all manner of other challenges, political assassination had not been on the list. To hear from a respected member of my professional community that not only was it on the list, it was something we all needed to really think about as we chose our fields of focus was sobering.

I think when you live with relative privilege in your native society, it's easy to forget just how often the stakes of socio-political discussions involve death and genocide. These are pretty removed phenomena for many people, even people like me raised on the stories of genocides done to my ancestors. And when we forget that these are the stakes, we start moving a lot less purposefully through the act of revolution.

What's the worst that'll happen if we are disobedient and resistant, we ask, they put us in prison?

No. The worst case is that a lot of people fucking die. Really and truly. It's not a hypothetical. People are living and dying by our choices around resistance. Can you effectively balance the urgency demanded by those stakes with the cautious decision-making required by anyone holding others' lives in their hands?

If you can't, then please for the love of god stop acting on the Great Man Theory trying to be a movement hero. Individual people don't save the world alone, and gloryseeking is an incredibly effective way to get people killed.

So what does the dominant cultural system do? Elevates individuals from social movements and calls them heros to all while erasing the radical parts of their messages and commodifying their images. They make gloryseeking look sexy and effective, and soon we have a wealth of people who think that making a name for themselves and being martyred for the cause is the same thing as radical action.

Like. Think for a minute. Really ask yourself, practically and logistically what getting martyred does for your movement. And none of that "galvanizing the people" crap because that's not how political assassination works. So WHY are so many people in radical spaces convinced it's a road to glory and world-changing?

Genocide is a nameless, faceless death, and corporations grind away at the world towards the eradication of anything that gets in their way. Their name is all that will survive, not your name, not your politics, not your stirring speeches. So what good does it do your movement to help a genocidier strengthen their brand on your corpse?

You are far more valuable and dangerous alive and within the strength and functioning of the collective. This is what I mean by "there is no less glory in revolution from within the relative comfort of support work". Support work IS LITERALLY THE WORK OF REVOLUTION. Without it, there are only individual and disconnected martyrs who were very brave and very alone. And that only serves the power systems that already exist.

the way sometimes I desperately want to rant about how it's so incredibly fucking easy to see exactly how you could manipulate hundreds of people into destroying any tangible movement and that it's straight up wishful thinking at best to live in a fantasy world you've created for yourself where companies and power structures that have no problems with human right violations will in any way hesitate to have people use you to destroy anything that threatens their hierarchy using the culture you built.

if your culture and your movement and your social justice does not have protection against being manipulated you do not have a movement, you have a secret list of rights you have permission to access and people who are a part of your group who gladly use your language and your ideology to keep you in line with what they think you should be allowed to accomplish

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The Long March, pt.2

History will not be kind to John Bolton.

As thrilled as so many are with him this week because his book exposes Donald Trump’s corrupt ass-kissing of autocratic rulers such as China’s Xi Jinping and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, what many can’t fail to recognize is that he could have and should have told all of these stories sooner. Much sooner.

That he didn’t is because he has a book to sell and he wanted to wait until close to its release date so he could boost his book sales. That should tell you all you need to know about John Bolton.

Oh, he was one of the architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq that killed millions and destabilized the entire region thus killing millions more. You should know that, too.

He’d really like us to invade Iran. Right now. This minute. That probably won’t happen, but it’s definitely something you should know. John Bolton is not someone you want in power.

Donald Trump, of course, is furious, and not just because even just the few details that have emerged about the book have made him look bad in front of the “other” strongmen, but because, like all bullies, he absolutely hates being exposed as a bully. Which he is. It’s worth repeating.

We focus so often on Trump’s incompetence, lies, and buffoonery that we seem to neglect talking about his being a bully, and understanding his bullying is the key to understanding everything about him.

Which brings us to Tulsa and Donald Trump’s “fuck you” of a campaign rally. Trump is all about propaganda, which for him means pushing buttons and provoking responses, much like a bully on a playground getting a rise out of his chosen victim.

His choice of Tulsa on Juneteenth was clearly intended for this. It allows him to play the bully and it allows his supporters to cheer him on as he does it.

This, in fact, is why he lies so often. He knows his audience. Whether or not they know he’s lying, they don’t care; as long as he’s hurting someone they don’t like, they’re happy. In professional wrestling, this is called “playing the heel”, and this very much is how they see him and why he appeals to them.

Go back and look at his rallies. He’s performing to his audience, but they, like the audiences at pro-wrestling matches, are performing, too. They’re no “marks”. It’s interactive, and that carries over to all of his public appearances and especially his daily rants on Twitter.

What, then, could be a bigger “fuck you” to to those fighting racism and police brutality than defiling a day celebrating freedom from slavery in a place just beginning to remember and overcome its own brutally racist history? Even pushing it back one day, Trump still gets to take credit. As bonus, he hopes, speaking Saturday will bring more protesters and counter-protesters primed for violence.

He wants videos of protesters losing their cool. He wants “Antifa” protesters seen to be doing violence. He wants a campaign ad that shows everyone looking for some kind of justification for voting for him (again) that they are right to support a culture (and economy) that relies pushing others down and keeping them there.

As those shared videos of hammer-wielding, fire-starting not-protesters keep showing us, this generation of protesters are more than capable of recognizing the threat posed to them and their movement by being blamed for violence they haven’t done. They understand full well how images of violence may be weaponized against them.

Trump won’t get his riot, not from them. On the contrary, any attempt to provoke a riot or perform one professional wrestling-style is very likely to be captured, shared, and exposed for the fraud it is.

This is an enormous advantage over previous generations. Countless past movements in countries all over the world failed in no small part because their ability to communicate was limited, either naturally or forcibly, and they allowed those working against them to control how they were perceived.

What Trump will have, though, is the opportunity to misrepresent the phrase “Defund the Police”. Much like “Antifa”, another term sure to get plenty of misusage at the rally, what it means can change depending on whom you ask.

This isn’t exactly a shock. “Black Lives Matter” has long been misrepresented by Trump and his supporters, and surely will be again in Tulsa. When bullies can’t make a rational argument to defend their behavior, they attack and they use obvious misrepresentation to do it.

Trump’s game here is the same as the one he played recently with “Obamagate”. Use the vagueness of the term as leverage. It can mean what each listener wants it to mean. Details just get in the way.

It’s all a variation on “The Big Lie”, a con made infamous by Adolf Hitler’s PR guy, Joseph Goebbels. Tell a lie that’s obviously a lie, such as, “Jews control the world”, keep repeating it (or dog-whistling it), let people read their own fears into it, and use that to get people to exploit themselves for you.

Contrary to what Trump’s audience will hear for the next four and half months, “Defund the Police” does not mean abolishing the police. There’s already a term for that: abolishing the police.

To defund the police is to redirect money from the police budget to programs better equipped through training and better suited in mindset to handle non-violent crime, such as a man asleep in his car at a drive-thru, and social issues, such as addiction and homelessness.

This means demilitarizing the police, both in the gear and weapons they’re using and in the adversarial mindset that is so entrenched among them that many who watched those same videos of police cracking the skulls of old men and young women thought it was a perfectly justified use of force.

The hope is to make policing less about statistics and quotas and war and more about recognizing those whom they have sworn to protect as equals and treating them as they would want to be treated themselves.

This, then, is what Donald Trump will attempt to do in Tulsa. With a lot of help from his own, personal Goebbels, Stephen Miller, Trump will tell his supporters that Black Lives Matter protesters want to abolish all police, that they want criminals to run free, and that they want to destroy what makes America great. And he’ll use that one phrase, “Defund the Police”, as the anchor to do it.

Another button Trump will push, which is to say, another Big Lie he will tell, will be about the statues of Confederate leaders (and other equally racist ones) being taken down and rising support for renaming ten military bases named for Confederate generals.

Like others pushing back at this necessary change, Trump will attempt to frame it as protecting history. “Heritage” is a code word we will likely hear, likely more than once. Like other coded language, it obscures truth rather than revealing it, which is just what those statues and base names were meant to do, obstruct our memory and sell us on a lie.

The lie they told normalized the racism those men stood for. It scrubbed clean the atrocities they and others committed to hold power over others and destroy their hope.

That lie has succeeded for so long because when we had the chance after the Civil War to complete the long march towards justice and equality for all, we gave up as we so often do. We had fought a war and were weary of it, and we had achieved…something, enough for people different than us and far away from us, so we stopped.

We’ve had opportunities since and each time we’ve made it a bit farther down the path, but each time we stopped, and those statues and names were no small part of the reason why. They held stature in our eyes, and that gave the lie power. They gaslit us, telling us our own memories were lies.

As with police brutality, they have served both as an expression and reinforcement of the imbalance of power in our society. Tearing the statues down and renaming the bases deprives power to the lie of our past. It restores the power of memory. We need to do that in order to move forward.

Memory is everything. This is why Trump and the strongmen he so admires attack it. Our memories serve to protect us, to keep us from making mistakes and repeating those of the past.

It’s why Trump frenemy, Premier Xi, has built his career on suppressing memories of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Without free speech and the memories that generates in a culture, you end up with something like we see in China, where few born after those pro-democracy protesters were killed even know it was done, or Hong Kong, where memory of Tiananmen is being criminalized.

Or worse, you end up with something like North Korea, another self-proclaimed “socialist” regime that denies its people two of the most basic tenets of actual socialism: free speech and freedom of movement.

The end of Japan’s brutal colonial rule in 1945 must have filled North Koreans with some sense of hope of those freedoms and more. Instead, they have endured a hereditary dictatorship - one that appears to be transitioning to its fourth “supreme leader”, Kim Yo Jong - that uses images of its rulers and idealized servant-citizens to suppress the truth of their misery and reinforce the imbalance of power between the ruling class and them.

Memory is everything.

The term “The Long March” refers to the military retreat of the Chinese communist army early in their civil war. The retreat lasted over a year. It saw the rise, fall, and second rise of Mao Zedong as leader of the communists. It is taught in China as a triumph of courage and will, as the test that proved Mao’s leadership and the virtue of following his lead.

Of course, Mao wrote that history. What the communists knew when they started their rebellion was that Chiang Kai-Shek was a corrupt, authoritarian ruler who was as weak - he had no answer for the Japanese colonial invasion - as he was greedy and cruel. Anyone would have been better than him.

Sound familiar?

What they got in Mao was change, but while China has finally achieved its place as a global economic and nuclear superpower, it has done so by crushing dissent, killing millions upon millions of its own people, and creating a brutal class system exactly like the ones of Chiang Kai-Shek and the emperors before him.

Ask the victims of Tiananmen Square if the long march ended well for them. Ask the people of Hong Kong right now.

It isn’t enough to make change. We must maintain it and expand it. That means holding the police accountable on body cam footage so they actually use the cameras. That means pushing them on public access. That means electing politicians who want to represent their communities rather than corporations. That means taking the time and effort to research candidates and to vote. That means finding a way to stay engaged.

Whatever has been accomplished in these first few weeks, it is just the first few steps down a long road. If this movement is to succeed, enough of us will need to go the distance, and to do so not merely following anyone else’s lead. This means asking questions we may not want to ask and passing on memories both of what we have done right and what we have done wrong.

Let someone tell you what questions need asking and what memories are worth remembering, and you hand over your lives to them, what they have been and what they can be. They will tell your story as theirs and they will change it to suit their needs.

On this day, the 19th of June, we owe it to ourselves and to future generations never to surrender that particular power to anyone ever again.

- Daniel Ward

[vorpalgatorade]

I just wanted to save this long facebook comment I wrote to some old people who are saying wacky things to see if i can derive anything good from it later

The US is on Earth and has 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories so, yeah, the US is part of the entire world's troubles. All the economies of Earth are connected as well. These are facts you don't have to be a democrat or republican to see truth in. People have different ideas of patriotism. Some believe holding power accountable to a standard is disrespectful... others believe it is American. Were we not started as a nation who said, "Fuck the King! We're our own people!" But King George was OUR KING! He should have been SHOWED RESPECT! Aaah, things start to really fall apart if you think about them... but that doesn't mean I am anti-America. Admitting there are problems is the first step towards solving problems. Denying there are problems is really easy and, dare I say, cowardly. More often than not, people on the lower rungs deny problems out of emotions and limited-perspective, while people on the top of the pyramid deny problems in order to stay in power and manipulate the people propping him up. For example, Donald is an atheist, but plays the christian card when it counts to amass a strong christian following in states that keep him powerful. Is lying to the American people time and time again worthy of respect by basis of authority? - ignoring all the other liars, this is -the most important and powerful liar on the pedestal at the current moment of time. I love America, by the way. I have family who served in the military. I am grateful for the billions who died before me to give me a good life. But when I look outside and sizeable numbers are fat, stupid, homeless, hateful, woefully and willfully ignorant, and nobody wants to help each other make this place any better... I gotta be honest with myself and ask if we're really all as great as we like to say we are! Donald says a lot of things that are void of meaning or blatant lies, and often with very specific motivations. Another fun example is him exclaiming at rallies that wind power noise pollution causes cancer. He's defunded education and denied funding for people's whose entire lives and jobs are to hold reality accountable to science. Why would he do such a thing? It benefits the few for a shorter amount of time. He won't be alive much longer than maybe 30 years tops- he doesn't have to worry about who he is fucking over tomorrow. Question motivations

[robgrayofficial]

HAPPPPPPY SATURDAY, PATRIOTS!This is your girl u/IvaginaryFriend here and I'm back at it again with a weeks worth of spice for you lovely Deplorables! (◠‿◠✿)Before we officially get this recap started, if you happened to miss any past recaps you can catch them here!Sunday, June 10th:🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal. According to a Canada release, they make almost 100 Billion Dollars in Trade with U.S. (guess they were bragging and got caught!). Minimum is 17B. Tax Dairy from us at 270%. Then Justin acts hurt when called out!Why should I, as President of the United States, allow countries to continue to make Massive Trade Surpluses, as they have for decades, while our Farmers, Workers & Taxpayers have such a big and unfair price to pay? Not fair to the PEOPLE of America! $800 Billion Trade Deficit... ... ....And add to that the fact that the U.S. pays close to the entire cost of NATO-protecting many of these same countries that rip us off on Trade (they pay only a fraction of the cost-and laugh!). The European Union had a $151 Billion Surplus-should pay much more for Military! ... ....Germany pays 1% (slowly) of GDP towards NATO, while we pay 4% of a MUCH larger GDP. Does anybody believe that makes sense? We protect Europe (which is good) at great financial loss, and then get unfairly clobbered on Trade. Change is coming!Great to be in Singapore, excitement in the air!Sorry, we cannot let our friends, or enemies, take advantage of us on Trade anymore. We must put the American worker first!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Cultural enrichment as its finestThe version they didn't want you to see.Canada does it: everything is fine. American does it: REEE RACISMWhen you are done making the g7 your bitch and you have to go end the Korean war🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:GLOBALISTS BTFO: "WE ARE THE PIGGY BANK THAT EVERYONE IS ROBBING. THAT ENDS."BTFO SocialistMy eyebrows are real.Just a picture of Ivanka Trump colluding with some RussiansMonday, June 11th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Donald J. Trump Meets with the Prime Minister of SingaporePresident Trump Participates in a 1:1 Meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong UnPresident Trump Participates in an Expanded Bilateral Meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong UnPresident Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Signs a Declaration of Friendship2018 Singapore SummitSeventeen Nominations Sent to the Senate Today🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Thank you Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:‘We’re America, Bitch’THE FIRST HANDSHAKE BETWEEN NK & US LEADERS. HISTORIC!!Kim Jong Un Can't Stop Smiling After President Trump Said They Will Have A Fantastic Relationship Then Kim Shocks The World And Tells President Trump He Wants To Move On From The Past !!HISTORIC!! #MAGAAnother Supreme Court win: 'Supreme Court allows Ohio voter purge'In case you guys were wondering, she's there in case somebody needs to be bitch slapped...especially Fake News!!!PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:Briefing by Secretary of State Michael Pompeo🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:And right over here we have the fake news. Nobody likes them.NO. FUCKS. GIVEN.Watch the left eat itself.Two terms. Two scoops. Two genders. Two cakes.The Democrat Party is now officially more hostile and dangerous to the US than North KoreaTuesday, June 12th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Trump Participates in a Media AvailabilityPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Meetings between staffs and representatives are going well and quickly....but in the end, that doesn’t matter. We will all know soon whether or not a real deal, unlike those of the past, can happen!Stock Market up almost 40% since the Election, with 7 Trillion Dollars of U.S. value built throughout the economy. Lowest unemployment rate in many decades, with Black & Hispanic unemployment lowest in History, and Female unemployment lowest in 21 years. Highest confidence ever!The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S., say the haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle launches have stoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!Just won big Supreme Court decision on Voting! Great News!Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center.SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Troll level - ExpertBREAKING: TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER WANTS CNN REPORTER'S CREDENTIALS REVOKED OVER QUESTIONS DURING NORTH KOREA SIGNINGFake News Jim Acosta justifying his rude questions at the Singapore summit: "Hey if they're not going to let me in the fucking meeting, that's what's going to happen… That's the way it goes, baby."Amazing video Trump showed Kim🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:HAHAFoot. Meet. Mouth.This man is 72 years old and hasn't slept in 22 hours. This is the President I voted for!Someone's JealousCurrent emotion of the leftLiterally Reddit right nowWednesday, June 13th:TODAY'S ACTION:Historic Summit with North Korea is a Tremendous Moment for the World🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:My political representatives didn’t want me to get involved in the Mark Sanford primary thinking that Sanford would easily win - but with a few hours left I felt that Katie was such a good candidate, and Sanford was so bad, I had to give it a shot. Congrats to Katie Arrington!Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received too many shots to the head by real boxers in movies. I watched him last night and truly believe he may be “punch-drunk.” I guess he doesn’t... ... ...realize the economy is the best it’s ever been with employment being at an all time high, and many companies pouring back into our country. Wake up Punchy!Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for Senator from Virginia. Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your taxes through the roof. Don’t underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer - sleep well tonight!We save a fortune by not doing war games, as long as we are negotiating in good faith - which both sides are!The U.S., together with Mexico and Canada, just got the World Cup. Congratulations - a great deal of hard work!Oil prices are too high, OPEC is at it again. Not good!So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN. They are fighting hard to downplay the deal with North Korea. 500 days ago they would have “begged” for this deal-looked like war would break out. Our Country’s biggest enemy is the Fake News so easily promulgated by fools!Senator Claire McCaskill of the GREAT State of Missouri flew around in a luxurious private jet during her RV tour of the state. RV’s are not for her. People are really upset, so phony! Josh Hawley should win big, and has my full endorsement.Congratulations to Danny Tarkanian on his big GOP primary win in Nevada. Danny worked hard an got a great result. Looking good in November!Congratulations to @KevinCramer on his huge win in North Dakota. We need Kevin in the Senate, and I strongly endorse him. Heidi voted NO on our Tax Cuts, and always will vote no when we need her. Kevin is strong on Crime & Borders, big on Cutting Taxes!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Tommy Robinson sent to Muslim Prison, the time to stand up is NOWMike Pence casts tie-breaking vote to allow states to defund Planned Parenthood. Prepare for internet meltdown. SBC18Food Stamp Enrollment Dips to Lowest Level in 8 YearsTrump Nominated For Nobel Peace Price... By NorwayTrump shows off 'The Beast' ( presidential limo ) to Kim during historic Singapore summit🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:POWERFULRare photo of our President shitposting in real timeWhen your attempt at political humor results in a massive redpilling.New "Make America Safe" painting by Jon McNaughton "If we don’t build the wall soon, we’ll be overrun by the weeds."The greatest moment of the Trump Kim Summit...Thursday, June 14th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:The Republican Party is starting to show very big numbers. People are starting to see what is being done. Results are speaking loudly. North Korea and our greatest ever economy are leading the way!Now that I am back from Singapore, where we had a great result with respect to North Korea, the thought process must sadly go back to the Witch Hunt, always remembering that there was No Collusion and No Obstruction of the fabricated No Crime.So, the Democrats make up a phony crime, Collusion with the Russians, pay a fortune to make the crime sound real, illegally leak (Comey) classified information so that a Special Councel will be appointed, and then Collude to make this pile of garbage take on life in Fake News!The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!... ... ....Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.Happy 243rd Birthday to the @USArmy! Thank you for your bravery, sacrifices, and dedication to the U.S.A. We love you!Happy #FlagDay🇺🇸SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT!!FULL INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT - Ditch the SSRI's, double up on the vaccines and GET IN HERE, PEDES! We're going full autistic on this!STRZOK: ‘We’ll Stop’ Trump Presidency‘Viva Le Resistance’: Mueller Team Attorney Sent Anti-Trump TextsThis is huge. Boston’s BWH Hospital removing images of historic doctors from public view because workers complained they’re all white. First neurosurgeon in the world. Nobel winner for first organ transplant. We should be proud of our hospital’s accomplishments not ashamed of their skin.PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:6/14/18: White House Press Briefing🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:FBI Director Christopher Wray holds a press conferenceIt’s GETOUS Birthday. Praise Kek, How will you celebrate this holiday. I plan to have the Standard Trump McDonald’s order then Two Scoops of Ice Cream and a Diet Coke while reading the IG reporthmmmmmmm"FBI says FBI is innocent, says FBI."Friday, June 15th:TODAY'S ACTION:A Message from President Donald J. Trump🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who headed the Clinton & Russia investigations, texted to his lover Lisa Page, in the IG Report, that “we’ll stop” candidate Trump from becoming President. Doesn’t get any lower than that!The IG Report is a total disaster for Comey, his minions and sadly, the FBI. Comey will now officially go down as the worst leader, by far, in the history of the FBI. I did a great service to the people in firing him. Good Instincts. Christopher Wray will bring it proudly back!Thank you for all of the compliments on getting the World Cup to come to the U.S.A., Mexico and Canada. I worked hard on this, along with a Great Team of talented people. We never fail, and it will be a great World Cup! A special thanks to Bob Kraft for excellent advice.U.S.A. Jobs numbers are the BEST in 44 years. If my opponent (the Democrats) had won the election, they would have raised taxes substantially and increased regulations - the economy, and jobs, would have been a disaster!Wow, the highest rated (by far) morning show, @foxandfriends, is on the Front Lawn of the White House. Maybe I’ll have to take an unannounced trip down to see them?“Why in the world didn’t Barack Obama fire this guy (Comey)?” asks Mark Levin!(Retweeting Fox&Friends) @jasoninthehouse: All of this started because Hillary Clinton set up her private server(Retweeting Fox&Friends) @jasoninthehouse: Anything Mueller is doing with his investigation is tainted by the anti-Trump FBI agents(Retweeting Fox&Friends) @jasoninthehouse: The DOJ IG report is 562 pages of nothing but bias and animus(Retweeting Fox&Friends) “This is one of the most damning rebukes of the FBI that I think we’ve ever seen.” -@jasoninthehouse(Retweeting Fox&Friends) DOJ IG report finds that an FBI lawyer told a bureau employee “Viva le resistance” after President Trump was elected(Retweeting Fox&Friends) IG REPORT BOMBSHELL: Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok texted his lover Lisa Page "we'll stop" Trump from becoming president“Donald Trump was 100% right to fire James Comey.” Mark LevinSIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Obama had direct contact with Clinton on private email server: IG reportUnder reported: FBI Agent acknowledges that Hillary's IT Guy "lied his ass off." Did we ever see ANY charges? Nope. Scandalous.Trump: ‘I May Get Involved’ in Justice Department ‘If It Gets Worse’Trump says he will not sign moderate 'Dreamer' immigration billFBI Employee: ‘Trump’s Supporters Are All Poor, Uneducated, Lazy POS…Pence is stupid.’ Another agent called us "retards." I was not even used to being in a cult yet. Fire these morons NOW🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:EverytimeDon Jr. Retweeted it!! Sad Ben Rhodes - Presidential Birthday RemixOoooh Noooo. Paul Manafort’s bail was revoked— he is going to jail.Obama's Left wrist is his foreign policy.Saturday, June 16th:🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the Border by working with Republicans on new legislation, for a change! This is why we need more Republicans elected in November. Democrats are good at only three things, High Taxes, High Crime and Obstruction. Sad!My supporters are the smartest, strongest, most hard working and most loyal that we have seen in our countries history. It is a beautiful thing to watch as we win elections and gather support from all over the country. As we get stronger, so does our country. Best numbers ever!The IG Report totally destroys James Comey and all of his minions including the great lovers, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who started the disgraceful Witch Hunt against so many innocent people. It will go down as a dark and dangerous period in American History!“Americans must demand their lawmakers support the legislation we need to defeat MS-13 once and for all, and to ensure every American child in every American community can grow up in safety, and grow up in security, and in peace.”SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE!Savage reply by POTUSTHIS RIGHT HERE, this nationally televised display of overt double standard, was the second biggest Red Pill (to date)🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Weekend Fun Ben Garrison Cartoon The "It Will Make Heads Explode" PrizeFBI: Report Didn't Mention BiasWEEEEW LAD!Without further ado, some jams to help you groove through all this WINNING!!!InvincibleGhost townStarvingAftergoldHard To loveMAGA ON PATRIOTS! #robgray