Ironically, the things that matter the most to Trump matter the least to our actual condition. We’re still putting innocent people in concentration camps, murdering God-knows-who with military boat strikes in the Caribbean, dismantling healthcare, disenfranchising American voters, and blowing up schools in Iran.

However, Trump’s failure to break the resistance with these measures has caused him to retreat into the only attention seeking activities that make him feel good: pissing all over DC with his trashy, botched, pet real estate projects, contrived fascist rallies, and lame parties thrown in Trump’s honor… by Trump himself. When you’re the President of the United States it’s easy to stumble into problems that no one on earth can save you from, something that has never happened to him before. Chipping away at his last narcissistic comfort zones with the symbolic rejection of scrubbing his name from our monuments will probably send him from the deep end and into orbit.

We’ve seen some truly, truly insane things from Trump, but they have been in the context of an American presidency. I don’t think Trump’s ego has an upper limit. If the midterm elections deliver the shellacking that appears to be coming, Hormuz is still shut, and they take away his toys? I cannot wait for a front row seat to the unimaginable display of unmitigated narcissistic rage from the world’s biggest ego imploding like a dying supermassive star.

By the end, the secret service is going to have to drag him in handcuffs kicking and screaming from a White House bunker.

When I was in fourth grade, in the morning, we would sit and listen to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” from an old tape deck in lieu reciting of the pledge. It felt more meaningful, and I suppose that’s why our teachers chose it as the daily patriotic ritual.

I like to think someone like Lee who possesses the heart of a musician that could create so much meaning in song, perhaps just can’t see past his own career, or through the thin veneer of simplistic patriotism, or that he simply can’t turn down his fans or an adoring crowd. He certainly doesn’t seem to be short on cash, and he performs at Trump events for free (which is probably why Trump likes him). And, he doesn’t seem to have the angry, bitter, and resentful spirit that has gripped the modern conservative movement.

Just what the hell is it that can make people blissfully embrace what Trump claims to represent while somehow letting the very real horror of what he does pass right through them?

The number of people who think their opinion about someone else’s marriage or gender matters is simply astounding. I can’t believe people get to vote on this stuff.

Fuck your attitudes, give us our rights.

I think this is a pretty clear indication that Trump has burnt through all of the people close enough to moderate him. Even a sane president wouldn’t manage their own social media.

He’s resorting to this stuff because he can’t get a political win to supply his narcissism: Iran is intractable, the reflection pool is a disaster, the funding for his unfinished ballroom is collapsing, anyone with a shred of credibility is ditching his trashy UFC party, and his concentration camps are churning out un-ignorable human rights violations by the day.

Look for more absurd narcissism as his presidency collapses. I don’t think there will be a ceiling.

I would add that we keep producing leaders with our values, but then they get shot down by the super rich people who are actually in charge. Which then results in no leader. :/

NBC “news” everyone. Jesus, everything about this is just a big fuckin’ dumpster. It would be better if the dumpster was on fire because then at least it might be entertaining.

I miss when business sophistry was about how my house would be cleaner.

“The only way we can save humanity is to buy my product!”

He’s not warning us, he’s threatening us.

Vood ewe lihkke sauhm oft mein Menstruuudel?

The High Ground

Fascist leaders like Putin play a dangerous game: they must always appear strong to ward off challengers to their tyranny. But, each time they lie they incur a debt to the truth that they are fundamentally weak, which is why they became fascists in the first place. Eventually the lies only serve to make them appear weaker until their brittle power crumbles in their clenched fists.

Apparently Putin has taken to living in his gilded cages to avoid assassination.

Fascist leaders like Putin play a dangerous game: they must always appear strong to ward off challengers to their tyranny. But, each time they lie they incur a debt to the truth that they are fundamentally weak, which is why they became fascists in the first place. Eventually the lies only serve to make them appear weaker until their brittle power crumbles in their clenched fists.

Apparently Putin has taken to living in his gilded cages to avoid assassination.

I’m gonna take up some extreme watersports in my 40’s

Fartist

Ever since the CEO of Telegram was basically lured to Paris, arrested, then read the riot act for Telegram’s non-cooperation with French authorities, the company has been responding to warrants and downplaying its “E2EE” features. Expect them to have a fully accessible backdoor for LE.

By the way, don’t forget about that Bitlocker backdoor that “mysteriously” doesn’t affect Windows 10.

The EU and US digital surveillance states have been tightening their grip on encryption and online anonymity for years now. “Age verification” is just the latest push.

I prefer the term “distressed eccentric friend you’ll never meet” 🥲

Anyways, how about those sports teams/political parties/abortion rights?

Sounds like something a robot would say 🤔

Biden’s real failing was not wining and dining and sucking up to Trump. Apparently that’s all you have to do to stick him in the palm of your hand.

ML is leaking again lol

stremio + real-debrid