#trump world

[tomorrowusa]

« You know, my goal these days is to try to stay in a good mood about things; and nothing is making me feel better than the fact that Donald Trump finally got his own Donald Trump. »

— Seth Meyers at Late Night with Seth Meyers on how wannabe Co-President Elon Musk is becoming a pain in the ass in Trump World.

[artcalledtheewhip]

There’s times in my mind when I feel hacked by Hawking and the warning is not intelligence. It’s the Rich controlling over all! Write you wasted in brain Tell them all You are alone in this bed, chair, stare, That’s a smile Business to help lives not control lives Nor a Government Unless wanted by all Ah Democracy Not Money My watches as posted are here

And mind control

In artcalledwhip

[wat3rm370n]

Marty Makary is a covid contrarian, cozy with anti-vaxxers.

Marty Makary has been making the rounds for ages on everything from CSPAN and CBS to The Ralph Nader Radio Hour. But make no mistake, there's good reason he’s welcomed into the seedy MAGA ranks of Trumpy Trumpworld. He’s just another doctor in the infect-everyone club with people along the lines of Scott Atlas.

He was part of the symposium of covid contrarians celebrating the anniversary of The Great Barrington Declaration. In 2020 he was a Fox News contributor. A while back Makary was quoted in a far-right media outlet that sells supplements, an industry some say fuels the right-wing political world, in an article that was attacking Paxlovid, dangerously and wrongly telling people not to use it for covid, for reasons that didn’t make sense. Sure, many doctors sometimes get these things very wrong. But the strange part was that Marty Makary was confusing Paxlovid with Molnupiravir, an entirely different drug, and attributing the way Molnupiravir works to Paxlovid, which is not accurate. That’s a troubling mistake to make. 

But then Makary is also a surgeon who actually mocked hand washing in a Congressional hearing, where he was brought in to testify by Republicans along with other Great Barrington Declaration natural herd immunity infect-everyone proponents. It’s odd how Trump has a reputation for germaphobia and yet two cabinet picks are actually notoriously known for anti handwashing. The other being Pete Hegseth who has such a laundry list of other things wrong with him you may have missed the handwashing thing - but that’s something that certainly stuck with me.

Marty Makary is apparently famous for the off-base factoid that medical errors are a leading cause of death even though his math doesn’t add up at all. 

In August 2021 he co-authored an anti-mask op-ed with Trumpy doctor Cody Meissner who now chants anti-vax herd immunity crap at FDA vaccine meetings.  In September 2021 he was pushing natural herd immunity, even after vaccines were available - which was essentially promoting needlessly letting babies get sick unvaccinated, a view shared with the notorious and sad Vinay Prasad, and Tracy Hoeg, someone with behaviour so unsettlingly right-wing that people only talk about some of it in private whispers.

So at some point you have to let go of the hopium that he’s some kind of moderate centrist who and both-sides things. This doctor shouldn't be normalized at all. He is NOT normal, no matter how much the media tries to manufacture mild on various and sundry Trumpy cabinet picks, or people wish-cast that nothing’s as bad as feared. Marty Markary is very much a Trumpy weirdo. And I wish people with platforms would stop being fooled, or somehow incentivized, into this truth-teller type nonsense when his math was all built on exaggerated fictions. And his opinions seem built on contrarianism.

I really wouldn’t trust this person for medical information, and I certainly don’t trust his politics.

Important Context - Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s FDA Pick Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary has spent years promoting fringe pandemic views and attacking the U.S. government. Walker Bragman Nov 20, 2024 He has authored multiple books on the subject including 2019’s “The Price We Pay,” which argued that costs were simply too high. With the pandemic, he has emerged as a popular figure on the political right for his particular brand of contrarianism, which has included falsely asserting in a February 2021 op-ed that the U.S. would achieve COVID herd immunity by April of that year. Even before COVID, Makary was controversial. In 2016, he was behind a widely rebuked study in the British Medical Journal purporting to find that medical error was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Shortly after publication, the editors-in chief of BMJ Quality and Safety debunked the findings.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

respectfully, if men can say “your body, my choice” i guess it’s only fair that we say to them “my gun, your life”

[batcavescolony]

Non-Americans please look away, this is private family matter.

[creelarke]

[unabashedtastemakerbanana]

The statistic that US presidents have been convicted of an average of 0.75 felonies each is wrong. Donald Trump, who's been convicted of 34 felonies is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[obliviouspoptart]

can we talk about how a broadcasted american presidential assassination attempt and Y2K happened not even a week apart

we don’t even live in interesting times anymore, we live in enthralling times

[truth4ourfreedom]

THINGS NOT IN THE NEWS ANYMORE. VERSION 6.0

Things not in the news anymore….

(Version 6)

-Maui wildfires. -East Palestine, Ohio -Joe Biden classified documents as a Senator. -Fauci working with China to create a bioweapon. -Pete Buttigieg’s best friend in prison for child porn. -Cocaine in the White House. (TWICE NOW) -The BLM and Antifa riots during 2020 causing BILLIONS of dollars of damage. -The data collected from the Chinese spy balloons. -Ukraine intelligence documents released that showed they were suffering massive losses and the American taxpayer was being lied to. -Nancy Pelosi’s “documentary” film crew on J6. -Veterans being kicked out of shelters to make room for illegals. -Pizzagate “debunker” jailed for possession of child pornography. -Gay porn film in Senate hearing room. -Veterans Affairs prioritizing healthcare of illegals over Veterans. -THE SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS. -Afghanistan drawdown and 13 service members killed in an attack on Kabul International Airport, that they hid the severity of it. -Obama droning an American citizen in the Middle East. -George Bush’s false WMDs. -3 service members killed in Jordan. -Hunter Biden making over $1M for “paintings”. -J6 political prisoners that are still in jail. -85,000 missing children at the southern border. -Epstein’s clients. -Obama coordinating with John Brennan and 4 other countries (5 eyes) to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign. -Mail-in ballots were the cause of the stolen 2020 election. -Jeffrey Epstein mentioning that Bill Clinton liked his girls “really young”. -The (NOW TWO) airline whistleblowers that mysteriously died. -Benghazi (I won’t mention anything more about this because I care about my life.) -Nancy Pelosi’s daughter stating that January 6th wasn’t an insurrection. -The January 6th committee destroying encrypted evidence before the GOP took over the House. -Nancy Pelosi admitting that J6 was “her responsibility”. -House Speaker Mike Johnson claiming there wouldn’t be foreign aid without border security in the bill, which was a lie. -The recent riots from illegal criminal aliens at the southern border and the border in general. -Hunter Biden not complying with a Congressional subpoena and deemed untouchable. Democrat privilege. -Vaccine side effects. -“Lab leak” out of China -The Secret Service having to basically guide Joe Biden everywhere he goes. -Who leaked (Sotomayor) the SCOTUS Alito decision. -Federal instigators inside the Capitol including pipe bomb evidence against them. -Obama’s chef “passing away”. -HRC’s chef “passing away”. -The Sheriff that happened to be in Las Vegas (during the mass shooting) AND the wildfires in Hawaii. -P Diddy sex-trafficking allegations. Where’s Diddy? -Gonzalo Lira (an American journalist) that was killed in Ukraine -Congress approving warrantless spying violating American’s 4th amendment rights while they are exempt. -Americans that were left in foreign countries (Haiti, Palestine, Afghanistan). -The billions of dollars of weaponry left in Afghanistan and the Taliban receiving $40M a week in “humanitarian assistance”. -Biolabs found in California. -Joe Biden’s impeachment. -The scum in the UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES waving the Ukrainian flag. -The over 300k ballot images that could not be found in Fulton County, Georgia; the same county Donald Trump on trial for “election interference”. -Democrats defunding the police causing massive rises in crime. -Kamala Harris’s record as DA in California. -The Transifesto from the school shooting. -Many U.S. Representatives and Congress receiving FTX funds. -They’re already working hard to bury Donald Trump’s àssassination attempt but we won’t let them bury that story. July 13th is never going away.

The distractions are out of control.

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[o-wild-west-wind]

While I’m still a bit bummed that they didn’t go with a more book-aligned POC Fiyero for the Wicked movie, I’ve been thinking (heheh) about how his being white highlights the really interesting foil relationship between him and Glinda (and, in many ways, the audience yourself).

At its core, Wicked is a cautionary tale about propaganda, (literal) scapegoating, and what it means to uphold the status quo. The audience is watching through Glinda’s eyes—it is through her, arguably the most beautifully tragic character of the show, that we learn how lonely life becomes when you forfeit your values in favor of systemic power and likability (“No One Mourns the Wicked” is, in many ways, about HER).

Now, this is where Fiyero’s whiteness can get interesting—if you consider him and Glinda to share roughly equal footing at the beginning in terms of privilege/how much they have to lose (applying our real-world lens of race and power here, where whiteness is the apex), his storyline essentially represents what could have happened if Glinda had made the brave (and arguably wise and loving, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down 👀) choice to go with Elphaba and fight the good fight (this is also why I feel like a queer reading of G&E’s relationship is almost implicit to the story, but I digress).

As the POC/marginalized allegory, Elphaba has much less of a real choice in her curtain-pulled-back turning point. But Fiyero and Glinda—both representing privilege—get to choose. So in Act II, we see the consequences of both the choice to stay (Glinda) and to go (Fiyero). In Fiyero’s case, his ultimate rejection of his own power, privilege, and even beauty leads to immense physical loss—including his own body—but that is then compared to the loss of love, community, and identity that we see Glinda left with by the end. And this brings us to the question that the audience is left grappling with: in an unjust system where loss is inevitable (a.k.a. our own world, as the Wizard himself represents), which of these things are YOU more willing to give up?

It’s important that Glinda is an empathetic character because, in reality, most people are going to be Glindas (obvi this is nuanced among us Elphabas of marginalized identities, but I’d still argue that there’s some level of Glinda in us all)—and it’s important to be rattled by the end of the show when you realize that she is the one who has the sad ending. But it’s also so important that Fiyero is empathetic (which I’m SO glad this movie leaned into)—because he’s ultimately who Glinda—and thus we, as the audience—should have been.

And especially given the state of US politics right now…this is just all more relevant than ever.

[stimmingandstruggling]

i can’t do this, sam.

i know. it’s all wrong. by rights we shouldn’t even be here. but we are. it’s like in the great stories, mr frodo. the ones that really mattered. full of darkness and danger they were. and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. because how could the end be happy? how could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

but in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. even darkness must pass. a new day will come. and when the sun shines it will shine out clearer. those were the stories that stayed with you. that meant something. even if you were too small to understand why. but i think, mr frodo, i do understand. i know now. folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. because they were holding on to something.

what are we holding on to, sam?

that there’s some good in this world, mr frodo. and it’s worth fighting for.

[tomorrowusa]

Rudy Giuliani is a perfect example of what unwavering loyalty to Trump will get you.

Rudy is a pathetic, impoverished, mindless putz who has no honor and even less self-respect.

Rudy refuses to admit that he was simply used by Trump who has since discarded him like used toilet paper.

[mysharona1987]

The masks are off.

[markfaustus]

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[jangillman]