Ursula K Le Guin: "Wanting praise, not history, the warlords burnt the books ..." Struck me.
Ursula K Le Guin: "Wanting praise, not history, the warlords burnt the books ..." Struck me.
So fucking tired of government by gaslighting. New rules should include shock collars for officials - you lie, you fry.
#treason
No. Kings.
What a perfect symbol of our new confederacy. Of dunces.
Putin wants it.
Need to lay the groundwork to ensure that our - now corrupted - system can still resist an illegal order like that.
See: "confederacy"
No American leader should ever want to impose this - and no American company should allow it. This is straight up Soviet fuckery and anathema to our (apparently former) values.
Wrap towel around head
Loki was right
Fascinating approach to the first amendment, this administration.
This is crazy - public health needs people to be able to get medical care regardless of status. Everything we know about governing is just out the door - Miller's contempt is all that matters.
When did the *military* become "federal law enforcement"? What the hell is wrong with these people that they should want to make a threat like this?
We are governed by cowards and monsters.
Surprised to learn industry was a protected class.
Worse - the tax revenue their work andcsoending used to generate goes to zero. This approach - stongarm tactics, new prisons, arbitrarily rescinding asylum, is singke most expensive way to pretend to change the situation. This is not policy - it is vile, fascist punishment.
A thing I want to understand better - how does this individual maintain Trumps ear? Bribes via Heritage? Blackmail?
Not aware we had declared war on Iran
Very selective about their sacred amendments, these gibbering fascists.
We need So.Many. Dinosaur costumes
Spitting at their feet seems just about the thing.
This is monstrous. Would they begin to get the point if someone who refuses to show ID lies and asks for *their* children? Find, expose, and prosecute the "supervisors" coming up with this fuckery. It must not ever become our norm.
The rules are simple - and go back to our founding. There are and need be none - because it is stone cold illegal. There is no wriggle room. Our Marines can pass this test of character. Hegseth has already failed.
I think it is long past time we stop taking masked thugs at their word.
When your approach to "law enforcement" is indistinguishable from a kidnapping ...
Among the infinite hypocrisies - remember "government efficiency"? Consider just how many people they are using for this strong-arm immigration "enforcement" compared to the result. Nothing they say is true. Nothing.
This corruption is intolerable.
It never occurred to me someone would *compete* for worst church in the country.
I am fasci-nated by this new form of government where republican executives just break laws and invite the "supreme" court to rewrite the rules for them. But when a democrat is in office the same court insists that executive authority must be painstakingly defined by Congress.
Remember when the *suggestion* of corruption was enough to justify derailing a prosecution against this criminal?
One party campaigned on destroying our economy and civil rights. Clearly the reasonable thing to do was to let them.
I think the gang accusation will alienate more than it resonates- but a demand for *effective* policing seems a potent framing.
Not until now. But it seems easily rejected - thankfully there just aren't that many people daft enough to think that the policing reform they want is more likely under Republicans.
Heh- then legalize more drugs. But as to this - going to be hard to convince folks outside this feral bubble that all police are gangs. Which police departments are? How can you make the conclusion inescapable?
Your list is too short
What are the good examples we can point to? A lot of folks don't hate or fear the police (yet) - tear it all down sounds unhinged. What do you want to build?
I don't think there is one! But there are choices that make their lies embarrassing and pathetic. Consider their spate of refent kidnappings.
Your deep insight and cutting rhetoric establish you as a force to be reckoned with! Do better at this whole public communication thing, please.
A good filtering strategy in general but bear in mind smartphones autocorrect weirdly. And in this particular case, "defund" very much became an electoral albatross - despite having *increased* law enforcement budgets! Non-left voters don't do policy. They do tribes.
It's a terrible slogan. If you are explaining, you are losing. And America is burdened with low information morons who will tune out the nuanced explanation of reallocated resources (while eating up fucking right wing lies about it). Positive framing impossible would have been better.
The amazing thing about this is that an American patriot should not even Want to. These people's hatred of others has blinded them to our traditions.
Like most of herr miller's policies, the point of the unnecessary roughness is to create the climate of fear that enhances our isolation. Furthermore, as foreign students fund a lot of university activity ... it's a fascist two-fer.
A man's life is at stake.
A government feared by its citizens is no legitmate government at all.
ICE have become the brownshirts.
I wonder if they realize that what they just "legalized" can be used by future administratons to remove traitor Republican judges. And by can, I think I mean should.
The journalist is maddeningly credulous- notice the last bit where they noted it ALSO might just be measurement uncertainty based on measuring rotation from rotating places? Accurate headline should read "team not done yet".
It is amazing how comfortable these assholes are with wrecking other people's lives.
You lie
The word of the year will be: desecration.
Fascinating to see the meme of the week is "respect" for the presidency - something they haven't managed in 15 years.
When Democrats were in power all the right had to fear was ... the government helping people.
We cannot be governed like this. - The Constitution is not "what the president thinks it is" (there is an obvious flaw in that propaganda). -Their strategy of mass lawbreaking is designed to overwhelm the legal system. These are clear violations of the oath of office.
The Declaration of Independence seems more salient this week than it has in a very long time.
If Newsom declares for the presidency ... now, I wonder how this would confound mangofuhrer's attempts to shake down California. Would the corruption finally be too blatant to ignore?