the provinces decline to offer tribute, the armies return in defeat, the temple of the arts has closed its doors, and the name of the Emperor is scoured from the palaces by his own magistrates. now the sun and storms turn against him. the Mandate is lost.

Neal the Seal team six

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

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What are the #MetalSky feelings about Rolo Tomassi?

Any Democrat willing to take these monster’s money should be ferociously purged from the party.

all they can do is cry about how unfair everyone's being about their feelings and try to work the refs because they know what they actually want to say is too ugly

Absolutely incredible scenes

I'm not saying you shouldn't yell at your governor/mayor/whoever for the way the local cops misbehave, but: most of these folks don't have anywhere near the level of practical control the law says they do it's not an easy problem to fix

Sharon is just taking a couple weeks away, she'll be back.

We're gonna need a lot of faceless bureaucrats with cold hearts and iron stomachs

Angine de poitrine

the conservative reaction to the virginia results remind me quite a bit of their reaction to the 2012 presidential election, where they were offended that democrats ran to win

the graft makes me see red

like, if the IRGC tomorrow tells trump negotiators that they're willing to cut the US a separate peace on oil shipping and give trump a piece of their revenues from the ali khamenei memorial toolbooth on the strait, there's a very reasonable possibility he might take it

Like, could we not have just started with this clear-eyed efficiency yesterday? Was it really necessary to flail around abjectly, and diving into a bottomless pit of self-loathing, before just getting down to something you knew could be done? And yes, apparently all that was necessary, somehow.

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

Yeah bro all of us are in group chats but some of us talk about stuff that actually matters, like sweet turnaround jumpers and morality and sandwiches, but I guess that means I'll never experience the nirvana of having so much money that I can cease to be human in any way that registers

Incurious, foolish, arrogant, high on their own supply, insufferably boring, convinced of their own intelligence and righteousness, yet without even the vaguest concept of ethics or responsibility to guide them, a plague upon humanity that ought to be excised

The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.

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i live in NJ, which is top 5 in state income tax. i make about $100k/yr. i want to pay income tax. In fact, I think I should pay more income tax. take another $100/paycheck, feed the poor.

Anyone who supported Trump for any reason is an evil idiot, but the people who insisted he was somehow anti-war belong in some kind of museum

The core problem is that literally 50% of the water is diverted to make comically tiny profits of, like, a few hundred million dollars, so trillions of actual economic activity gets held hostage by some clown who bought land in 1872. Put a market price on water and the problem is instantly fixed.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I love that the biggest collection of idiots we have to offer as the most powerful nation in world history is just out there playing Risk

if you were to write a prophecy of the future back in 2000 that "in 2026, President Donald John Trump has launched a war on Iran with Israel after previously attempting a coup to stay in power in 2020", people would think you've gone insane

Yeah ok but what would this guy know about writing dangerously unhinged and ridiculous fictions

tell it to the hague, buddy

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Donald Trump is: - Openly racist - Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children - Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state - Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders - Polling at 38% amongst the American people

someone get this to no kings or some big group- let's make election day a party. I always thought election day should be a day of joy because a lot of people died to make it possible it should be a four day weekend and celebration.

The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence

Especially since we currently have about a dozen moral panics that have gone too far, THIS was the thing that made you mad?

It’s really weird for some corners of the media to do a whole “the Epstein files are a moral panic that has gone too far” thing when no one has faced any sort of punishment and doesn’t sound like they’re going to.

it shouldn’t matter at all what the background of someone murdered by fascists is “he was no angel” is horrible, bigoted bullshit but it does affect people’s perception and they fucked up really really bad here because they appear to have shot an actual saint

I am as explicitly as possible laying down a date-stamped marker that a federal immigration agent is going to die violently within the next calendar year, and that this will retroactively be used to justify policy. I am saying it here so I can angrily quote this at media figures when it happens.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

There has to be a word beyond outrage for when this loathsome, lying pack of slovenly frauds uses a Web 2.0 version of the Klan to publicly butcher the best humanity has to offer and then dare you to question their right to do it and laugh in your face about it

this is how it’s going to have to be, and how major movements have always been

The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

they made the speedrun from Kavanaugh Stops to Kavanaugh Abductions to Kavanaugh Absolute Violations of Constitutional Rights in record time, to no one's surprise

another really bleak part of the lore in that universe that feels more relevant now is how in the midst of the resource wars the us manages to successfully invent nuclear fusion and uses it primarily as a way of building new types of weapons to keep fighting over oil

Dude is a real one

people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us