He still looks quite swollen.
He still looks quite swollen.
Since his "golf outing"... have we seen him recently? Has he made any public appearances whatsoever?
"Good job on America... now do Britain..." - Putin, Xi, and the Access of the Aggrieved
Why is that?
Right. They are The Axis of the Aggrieved.
I'm sorry to read about this, too. I will say, however, that when he at long last testified before Congress after the Russia probe, it was evident that he was dealing with some sort of neurological issue. I wish him well.
Can you elaborate on the Xi angle here in regard to NATO?
I think he's suffering from congestive heart failure.
Are you sure that's Donald Trump's writing?
The Great Pretenders
They have neutered the United States in order to go after Europe. I hope those conditions change, but a strengthened EU defence posture is crucial at this point.
Cynicism is an easy way out. It's a way to wiggle out of the responsibility we all have to our country. Don't be a cynic.
TikTok you don't stop...
Why?
I mostly disagree. Americans right now can't figure out what to do without elite leadership, so many of us are just trying to carry on and survive the best we can, waiting for our moment to take our pound of flesh. This is cynic bait.
Is he still married?
It's going to be a whole new "bread crumb" mind job ready to brainwash a few too many Americans, because the original Q story unraveled, because Trump wasn't the savior as foretold by QAnon. He was actually a part of the conspiracy.
One hand has "Q+" in it, which must be the new gigantic conspiracy beard for the fact that the original "Q" story was unmasked as complete and utter bullshit. It's a way to win back those crazy fucks who became disenchanted by the Epstein revelations. So... keep an eye on 4Chan.
In order for this to work, however, we need to stop thinking about our political culture in stark black and white terms, casting out anyone who steps even a toe "out of line."
His last words before he croaks are going to be a feral "I HATE YOU ALL!" as he melts into a puddle of ooze.
Americans "America'ing" it in the face of tyranny. I salute these climate communication experts.
Maybe he should prove his virility by flying onto the WH grounds in Marine 1 then racing up the stairs--like really, really running--up the balcony.
Nothing they say or do will matter in this media environment until they are able to carve actual tunnels through the noise. Otherwise, it's meaningless.
Given all of the demonstrative fluid retention in his system, it kind of makes me wonder, if someone were to hit him with a dart, if he would explode like a pustule--like explode in a disgustingly dramatic way that would make Dr. Pimple Popper blush. Like a sloppy "sploom!"
Because his name isn't Joe Biden? I know--unhelpful.
If I were to guess... based on relatives who have suffered over the last several years... water retention that comes with poor heart function. Why he's up and moving around is a mystery to me. He needs hospitalization.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_J...
They had to bury him in the dirt for a while so he could regenerate.
It's always amazing to me how the smallest looking figure in that room is the President.
Watch Valerie’s whole speech here: www.instagram.com/reel/DLrDU-_... Goodnight 💚 we hope you get some rest this weekend
I think this would be handled more by the Pentagon, ODNI, and Homeland Security with CDC cooperation. But those agencies are severely compromised right now, so in the case of germ warfare, I think we would certainly be vulnerable. Especially given that we would also be vulnerable to misinfo.
I appreciate the explanations, everyone. Thank you.
I understand why they're resigning, but a part of me wishes that they weren't. We need sane people to remain in the bureaucracy.
Reading Trump's Mind...
That would bring the American out of the Americans living there. (Whose streets? OUR streets!)
Can someone explain the English sentiment toward displaying the flag? In the US that's typically seen as patriotic.
Remember always that they puff themselves up because they're really small and defeatable. Don't buy into the bloat.
Looks like guerilla tactics are being used on the UK's information spaces to return the buffoonery to government. Just like Trump's folks did to Americans during Biden's term. Word to the UK: You had better get on combatting that now. Don't make the same mistake that Biden made and ignore it.
"I put myself in Trump's mind..." and feel a deep void. "I put myself in Trump's mind..." and it sucked every bit of hope from my soul. "I put myself in Trump's mind..." and now I wonder whether I will ever escape the fires of damnation. "I put myself in Trump's mind..." and just... blackness.
That's really pathetic. What a fragile group of people.
Ah--scratch that. She used to be a hairstylist before getting into comedy.
If I recall, she started as a makeup artist on the show, didn't she?
Vance is even worse than the orange guy. He's slick, knows how to lie, is a true MAGA believer, and I've read somewhere that he once dated a woman named West Elm? Or was it Lovesac? I can't remember. Anyway, kind of weird.
This much attention. To a single bathroom. In a single school. In a state with a population of just under 6 million. It's as if this is a brittle administration who survives only day to day on media stunts and spectacles. Who has no real substance outside of stirring up dirt.
Yeah, okay. So the good guys at the CDC are pushed out. I refuse to believe this to be a permanent condition. America is still occupied by good and skilled people. To say that a force for good like this is finished seems inaccurate. But what do I know? Maybe we should just give up and walk away.
He is physically succumbing to a cardiovascular condition. He is showing increasing signs of mental decline. He is acting almost completely on impulse now. He erratic behavior will only continue worsening. He is no longer a fully functioning person.
Oh ffs
This was Biden's entire campaign until he dropped out... and Harris', too. The problem is not whether the DNC is pro-democracy enough--the problem is whether they will promise revolutionary change to our democracy in a way that returns power to the people. Americans want systemic reform.
He needs to get taken off the board. Either arrest him and hold him accountable, forcing other Russian officials to negotiate an end to the war. Or take him out. He hasn't earned any right to negotiate. He is an accused war criminal.
Manchin and Sinema were paid off.
PSA: The Fox Broadcast Network is different from The Fox News Channel is different from Fox broadcast affiliates, which are owned by different companies. All three are about making money. Only one serves actively as a propaganda network for the Republican Party.
Putin needs to get captured and dragged to the Hague.
I'm getting tired of these inflammatory clips without added context, responses to the remarks, or anything that gives us the whole picture of what happened here. It's just rage bait.
Did anyone in that fucking room correct him? That is such blatant error.
And one of the dumbest, dumbest decisions by the Biden Admin and the Dem Party as a whole, was to merely shrug at the Internet's role in subverting democracy, and to say "we can just organize around it," not understanding how much demons and demogogues benefit from it.
I hope he fights this fight. And I hope he wins. For everyone seeking asylum.
And only 20 some-odd percent of independents.
Too many Americans have given up on their country because this time, it seems that institutional elites have given up on America, as well. Swallowed up by reductive defeatism and cynicism--where bashing this country feels better than fixing its problems.
He is a foreign asset hurting the United States in a way that will ultimately benefit American adversaries. Before now we would not have tolerated it. We need a general strike.
I think that there are better angles to this administration than one that attempts to humanize them with "jokes."
Sometimes I look at this era and feel fear. Sometimes I look at this era and feel sad. And sometimes I look at this era and see an entire nursery of toddlers in a collective meltdown as they throw toys and knock over blocks. And then I feel pity and wonder when they'll finally exhaust themselves.
He is an untreated, disturbed individual with paranoia, delusions, and sociopathic inclinations toward specific groups of people (racism). He is now living through a grand delusion in which he has been given power that someone of his profile should never have. He is only acting on his delusions.
WTF happened to Snoop?
Wow. He's a mental patient. I really do wish that we could involuntarily commit him. He's delusional.
He's not well, is he?
Kind of a deep cut there. You have to kinda remember 1980s international news. (They must be old.)
But given that Fascism is national(ist) socialism, doesn't this fit more of a Mussolini or Hitler model than a Leninist model? Can a poli sci expert weigh in on that?
Ironically, the screwworm was found inside the skull of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Each federal judge needs his/her own group of enforcement agents that answer to the bench and carry out his or her rulings. That or the US Marshalls need to get yanked from the DOJ's jurisdiction and split among the federal court system. This is getting ridiculous.
Larger question: How many wealthy businesspeople still care about the longevity of the American democratic project? And how many care enough to step in and are willing to use their resources to save it?
But how is this bad for Joe Biden, I wonder?
Seriously, if we were still in the pre-digital days of communication, Trump would be sending random people letters constructed with cut-out letters from magazines. His posts are just as demented.
Nitroglycerin patch?
Or "Which of the two major parties uses these terms more often in cong. comm.?"
This academic says that this is textual analysis, which is indeed an acceptable, widely-used research method, particularly in media studies. Although the methodology is simple enumeration, that enumeration is an appropriate way to answer the ?: "How often do these terms appear in cong. comm.?"
Well, one can argue that Trump is the modern conservative movement taken all the way out to its end. I see this type of projection a lot in never Trumpers. They committed their lives to American conservatism, denying the racism, etc., but Trump has yanked the veil off. And that must hurt.
Because Republicans won't uphold the US Constitution.
I'm actually kind of worried about what I'm seeing here. Is this a thing where he's struggling with the fact that maybe he might have n some way been responsible for Trumpism? I mean... I don't know. I don't know him, but I do at least wish that he'd stop repeating misinformation.
www.cnn.com/2022/10/23/p...
So have I. And I have watched the Republican Party slowly morph over time into the state that it's in now. That is on the GOP and its propaganda machine--not on the fiction being attacked here.
Jesus. Or the Republican Party could have adopted the border bill that Biden pushed for instead of opening the door for fascism. Look... I know that it's tough to realize that American conservatism failed, became reactionary, and radicalized into fascism, but it's important to embrace this reality.
Only a select few talk like this. Trump is a creation of Republican anti-democratic behavior that became increasingly radical over decades, in response to a changing America. I feel like we need an intervention to help a few people come to Jesus and embrace this reality.
I am here to correct misinformation tonight, it seems. www.cnn.com/2022/10/23/p...
And I'm Dr. InscribaJournal, thank you very much.
You keep saying something that isn't reflective of reality! This isn't happening to the degree that you're making it out to be.
Mr. Nichols, this is based on propaganda, not the truth. This is only anecdotally true.
Increasing Republican radicalism, and the noise of the Republican propaganda machine (read: Bannon's shit-flooding) brought us Trump's fascism--not Ayanna Pressley using inclusive language during a specific committee meeting.
It would have been nice if the Republican Party didn't start down this pathway back when Reagan spoke about "Cadillac driving welfare queens" and Gingrich talked about women in the military having "monthly infections." And we're wondering whether Dems should mind *their* language?
Based on everything that I've gathered on this up until this point, you're yelling at a strawman. Yes, individual online activists and individual Dems on the far left dip into this terminlogy sometimes. But how many liberals do you hang with? Data don't show a universal adoption of these terms.
I'm sorry, but this part of the conversation is likely based on misinformation. Please see the Snopes article that I have posted twice.
"In sum, Democrats... are not seeking to rename 'Mother’s Day,' nor are they seeking to replace the word 'mother' with 'birthing people.; Many Democrats are...pushing for language that is inclusive of transgender and gender-nonconforming people who also give birth." www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...
Can we please fact-check this article?
But that education often informs politics. I think it's foolish to think that the values inscribed in learning about countering mainstream political thinking, for example, can somehow remain separate from politics itself. They go hand-in-hand.
But what speakers are you referring to with this critique? Politicians use the words that consultants provide to them. Online activists use whatever terminology that they know to use. Who are you actually upset at here?
Please double-check this... Yahoo and Newsweek (which rewrite press releases) and Fox News were the only news sources on this. I can't find a fact check article on this specifically, but I did find this: www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...
But these words/ideas don't just remain in the ivory tower. Students attend these classes and learn these concepts. They then graduate, continue into their private lives, sometimes with these ideas internalized. Sometimes they use the terms in discussion. Perhaps we need to stop teaching sociology?
No. It was about acknowledging power relationships and believing that there needs to be a counter to that. Good grief. This entire conversation is a middle finger to every sociologist out there. I mean why bother studying anything about society at all, ever? Let's just trash it all.
That's a structuralist read of language. That a word "symbol" has one primary meaning. The post-structuralist project from the 1960s on argued that words are cultural symbols that have greater meanings imposed by hegemonic entities (cough: white men) and should be deconstructed.