Because the thing is, this is real but also, it's not real. This image reflects the reality that Trump *wants* a total state in which he is the unquestioned leader, but we do not actually live in that state, at least not yet.
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We do.
aug 29, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
There's a sort of grim symmetry to the four years that Biden spent providing the illusion we still lived in a normal functioning democratic country, that if he just provided good government and adhered to norms the fever would break and people would vote for sanity and responsible choices.
aug 28, 2025, 1:42 pm • 53 6 • view
Then sadly you would ignore the ugly underbelly of American history. Joe himself spoke about corn pop after George Floyd blatantly admitting he needed the votes of white men. The same men not giving a fuck about the health of women.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 3 0 • view
American white supremacy is literally eggshell white for how fragile it is. The silent rise of neonazism owes itself to the fact that after the southern strategy whiteness became universal.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Neonazis and Nordic pagans wanted a continued WASP hegemony only the foot soldiers were more often than not loud drunk boors who couldn't be entrusted with anything clandestine .
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
This is why some on the fringe turned toward kaczinsky and Orbán because both have redneck voter bases and both Poland and Hungary largely Lack gated communities so they meet their voters.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Project 2025 was like s godsend teaching the GOP how to reconnect in messaging with the soon to haves. This is why they go after Garcia. Also why their rage is selective.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
They let the flag burning veteran go not because they suddenly went woke they let him go to keep up fash morale that the military is still a darling. Also why the full honors for Ashley babbitt.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
There are likely hundreds of former east Germans who could probably tell you by heart their school was named after which martyr border guard and what the values of pioneers and the FDJ is.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
And it should have worked. I wish to god it had.
aug 28, 2025, 2:08 pm • 15 0 • view
The illusion was pretending that the political class should not be held accountable, that the voters will just intuitively know and respond appropriately with justice at the ballot box and ignore the massive psyops waged against us with our own money and data.
aug 28, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
It was always just a stay of execution
aug 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s setting the stage, i.e. beginning the normalization process.
aug 28, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Just like the plastic “gold” stuff that has overtaken the Oval Office.
aug 28, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Plus this simulacrum which exists in the real world, recorded by a real person and camera, depicts a poster informed by the zero-soul quality of AI composition AND the poster literally reads ME FIRST which is not even the regular fascist message, which 'elevates' The People!!
aug 28, 2025, 3:13 pm • 8 0 • view
But that is his way of world-building: Hyperstitions. It's all fake until it's not.
aug 28, 2025, 2:10 pm • 7 0 • view
Cuz fuck that guy
aug 29, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, and fascism is the aesthetic performance of politics without the democratic power implied in politics
aug 28, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Some of us do.
aug 28, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
"The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality, while lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it."
aug 28, 2025, 1:38 pm • 2,384 182 • view
For those who, like me, had to look up this quote, it’s from Guy Debord and can be found at paragraph 8 here (page 12 using the PDF pagination): files.libcom.org/files/The%20...
aug 28, 2025, 2:10 pm • 14 0 • view
So....Baudrillard was right about everything? We should sell hats. I hadn't seen it this way, thanks for pointing this out. I took it literally and I think you are right to not do so.
aug 29, 2025, 4:20 am • 0 0 • view
This is a point on the curve between repeating the lie and believing the lie. And we’re heading the wrong way.
aug 28, 2025, 1:55 pm • 3 0 • view
We're all situationists now
aug 28, 2025, 1:39 pm • 6 0 • view
Makes me think of a quote I heard regarding military strategy, "half of all power is the projection of power."
aug 28, 2025, 9:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Until the painted egg cartons fall off your poorly maintained tanks RR.uzzia nailed the posturing first three day phase of their military operation
aug 29, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
"The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is the truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true."
aug 28, 2025, 1:47 pm • 15 0 • view
Source: Guy Debord, “The Society of the Spectacle” www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obri...
aug 28, 2025, 1:45 pm • 6 0 • view
Been a long time since I read that but I was just thinking, did Bouie just quote Debord?? Was about to go searching for that quote-thanks for saving me the trouble.
aug 29, 2025, 12:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Put another way, it's as if someone made a real life version of AI-slop in an effort to align reality with the slop.
aug 28, 2025, 1:40 pm • 2,705 182 • view
That’s exactly what it’s like.
aug 28, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
The indulgence of incompetent power. You could be describing a cybertruck or a movie with a big mechanical spider...
aug 28, 2025, 3:10 pm • 9 0 • view
Interesting to me the portrait of him with the word 'First' illustrates his obsession with winning. He does not, and cannot win in fact or policy. We all know the wins he has are cheats. Sad but comical his desperation, an attempt to ram down throats of all who see this the idea that he is a winner.
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 2 0 • view
I do wonder if people watching the rise of prior authoritarian regimes said the same sort of thing. “Oh, they’re just trying to copy the glory of Rome. Kind of sad” they say as the Blackshirts goosestep through the town square on their way to beat up some labor organizers.
aug 28, 2025, 2:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Only if you leave out how to stamp out concurrence Mussolini hunted the mob and in Albania hunted vendetta which is why so many went along with it.
aug 28, 2025, 3:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Sure—Trump targets immigrants and minorities for the same reason.
aug 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
When mussolini went after the mob, again for selfish reasons to stamp out concurrence, he actually went after hard criminals. It would be correct to point that was also bigotry against southern Italians.
aug 30, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
This is why the mob in America changed. Where in the 1916-1919 mafia wars were framed by sicilian control over the American assets the subsequent second war during prohibition was marked by Italian Americans wresting control
aug 30, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
This allowed for cooperation with the outlet under Meyer lanski, a cooperation unimaginable in Europe. Once RFK turned onto the mob the importance of Sicily grew again and lasted until the 1990s
aug 30, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
If you pretend you have already won, the onus shifts to others to defy your narrative
aug 28, 2025, 1:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I think this is going to be a trend, and not just in Trumpist politics. We won't be able to recognize quality anymore.
aug 28, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
I've seen "cargo cult authoritarianism" referenced here a bunch of times and "plastering your leader's face on buildings" is a textbook example of it
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 4 0 • view
Where’s the uproar from the “taking our jobs” crowd?
aug 28, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
These guys all follow the same “authoritarian playbook.” Is there a book? How to they all manage to check the same boxes? Even down to the garish and filigreed decor?
aug 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Speaking of Hyperreal Simulacra... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
aug 28, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 1 • view
Many such cases of reality aligning with slop
aug 28, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Really so much to process here but yea... agree
aug 28, 2025, 3:05 pm • 11 0 • view
If enough people believe this is true, then it functionally becomes true to them and people can act off of it. Even though, it's completely false.
aug 28, 2025, 1:54 pm • 17 0 • view
It matches his decorations in the white house.
aug 28, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a cargo cult.
aug 28, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Donald’s dressing for the authoritarian state he wants to make his dreams a reality.
aug 28, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
That describes every right-wing/conservative/fascist brain worm ever. Complain about problem, create said problem, "solve" said problem.
aug 29, 2025, 11:15 am • 4 0 • view
I think it works because of the nondescript cars in the photo, I always look to that for dating purposes (also helpful with AI) but the timing/framing in this shot is perfect in that sense
aug 28, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Mutilating my hands so the AI likes me more
aug 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 2:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Baudrillard would have a field day with this
aug 28, 2025, 4:06 pm • 23 0 • view
Baudrillard's increasing relevance is not in any way unsettling, nope, not at all
aug 28, 2025, 4:07 pm • 23 3 • view
He won, man. The intellectual of our time
aug 28, 2025, 4:10 pm • 7 0 • view
fwiw, i think this every time i see gavin newsom’s face in a tiktok these days, too
aug 28, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
imo AI slop sounds a lot like Azerbaijan's PR campaign too, except that they've payed actual marketing companies for it. There's been coverage at that other site, which I haven't been checking in to lately. Recent news, minus the revolving door on the WH press releases www.unilad.com/news/politic...
aug 29, 2025, 4:05 am • 1 0 • view
Right. It's called "propaganda".
aug 28, 2025, 2:15 pm • 3 0 • view
The presence of National Guardsmen who mostly seem bored fits that nicely. The terrifying and the banal.
aug 28, 2025, 1:42 pm • 29 1 • view
The troops standing around in front of huge portraits of Bashar al-Assad also looked bored when I saw them in Damascus.
aug 28, 2025, 1:46 pm • 20 1 • view
Until they actually had to fight…
aug 28, 2025, 5:26 pm • 1 0 • view
It's Vonnegut's "In the long run we are all what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about what we pretend to be," only writ large and stupidly.
aug 28, 2025, 1:45 pm • 55 5 • view
Factamundo
aug 28, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
this from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social summed things up pretty succinctly www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracke...
aug 28, 2025, 1:41 pm • 65 17 • view
I'm thirding the two earlier endorsements. Thanks for the link. "fascism, that overdose of a strong referential in a society that cannot terminate its mourning." Fuck, man.
aug 28, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks for sharing this. Very interesting reading
aug 28, 2025, 4:21 pm • 3 1 • view
I feel a bit smarter after reading that, thank you for sharing.
aug 28, 2025, 4:15 pm • 7 1 • view
It's fascism via the way long-running media franchises eventually only reference themselves and no longer say anything
aug 28, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Guessed with the mention of *simulacrum* the spectacle quote was Beaudrillard, but looks like a contemporary of his, Guy Debord www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/1....
aug 28, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 0 • view
as @jessehawken.bsky.social pointed out yesterday, it's also extremely Alex Garland Civil War
aug 28, 2025, 1:49 pm • 55 1 • view
It’s insane how much Garland is vindicated this year
aug 28, 2025, 1:52 pm • 46 2 • view
For… calling that we were going down the authoritarian rabbit hole? Like that didn’t take any sort of genius. And the biggest sin that Civil War commits is that it fails to actually *say* anything about the country. Nothing about why we get there, nothing about what we could have done differently.
aug 28, 2025, 2:19 pm • 32 0 • view
The “impartiality of journalism” is so thoroughly embedded in this movie that it forgets to say anything else, or justify why that is even good. How the fuck is he vindicated?
aug 28, 2025, 2:19 pm • 15 0 • view
It's one of those movies that is more concerned with -feeling- like a movie with something to say than having something to say. Takes the trappings of modern events and better movies and pretends there is something behind it.
aug 28, 2025, 2:21 pm • 11 0 • view
in a word: pretentious.
aug 28, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
In the actual sense of the word, yes.
aug 28, 2025, 7:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Why the fuck did he have the young next generation journalist shooting black and white 35mm instead of livestreaming on an iPhone. Fucking stupid boomer shit. The movie is supposed to be about journalism and he's like "kids love film"
aug 28, 2025, 2:21 pm • 19 0 • view
i know he was trying for an aesthetic with the camera's viewfinder on screen, but at least the reporter guy should have been getting video while they were running around b/c it's not like he was writing stories. i mean weddings these days usually have a videographer and a photographer together
aug 28, 2025, 2:25 pm • 5 0 • view
I love black and white film photography but Getty isn't going to buy her photos for publication. And I doubt she's a Magnum photographer yet. She's just out there doing it for funsies.
aug 28, 2025, 2:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Civil War is a film about what happens when America treats America like it treats the rest of the world. I can assure you it’s all pretty obvious to anyone outside the borders.
aug 28, 2025, 2:34 pm • 4 0 • view
I’d believe that if it ever bothered to distinguish between American soldiers, the civilian militias fighting with them, and the civilian militias fighting each other
aug 28, 2025, 2:37 pm • 5 0 • view
You are so fucking close to getting it
aug 28, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
If you think those are all the same thing you're a lot dumber than you think you could be
aug 28, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re so close fam
aug 28, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I know the point you’re trying to be witty about and it breaks down because it just wound up being Some Guys shooting at Some Guys and they all suck and that’s pretty fundamentally different from “These guys came in, rained death, deposed our government, and shot anyone who looked at them wrong.”
aug 28, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
There is a way to do that story and it’s not by following a war journalist who doesn’t give a shit about anything and is heralded as noble for her unbiased documentation of Some Guys killing Some Guys for no clear reason while slowly making her way to the US capitol.
aug 28, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, it all is pretty stupid
aug 28, 2025, 2:22 pm • 3 0 • view
I bet Trump just watched that movie and thought huh I should try that
aug 28, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Temu Muammar Gaddafi over here.
aug 28, 2025, 5:46 pm • 3 0 • view
I love your analysis. Reading your content never fails to broaden my vocabulary!
aug 28, 2025, 2:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Shorter Janelle: Fake it til you make it.
aug 29, 2025, 4:20 am • 4 0 • view
If I hadn't known it was real, I absolutely would have thought it was AI.
aug 28, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Life will imitate art
aug 28, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
You stuck the landing. Well said.
aug 28, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
a perfect summation of our present moment
aug 28, 2025, 8:44 pm • 2 0 • view
So you're saying he's manifesting? One also wonders if he only sees things as real when they are in the media. It would explain a lot.
aug 28, 2025, 2:09 pm • 6 0 • view
This is a brilliant analysis.
aug 28, 2025, 1:52 pm • 9 0 • view
Nails it
aug 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 2 0 • view
This is why public acts of mockery, contempt, silliness, and other aesthetic counter-displays are a valuable form of political organizing right now Nothing busts this spectacle up like a bunch of weirdos dressed in funny clothes prancing around yelling "King Trump! King Trump!" and throwing glitter
aug 28, 2025, 7:13 pm • 9 0 • view
That was the purpose behind the court jester in Renaissance times--to keep the king from getting too many big ideas of himself. King Trump would never allow such a thing in the WH.
aug 28, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
My prayer for today: May the jesters gather outside the White House; may they put on silly costumes and dance; may they surround the White House with multicolored toilet paper
aug 28, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Luvin' it
aug 28, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
This banner is up there alongside one of Teddy Roosevelt. Both say “workers first” which I don’t think is true for either man??
aug 28, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
That kinda sounds like what meta, Google, and quite a few others are trying to do with their platforms and GenAI. Or maybe they’re just helping a whole larger project
aug 28, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Even Hitler was not so vain as to put his image on his banners.
aug 28, 2025, 2:36 pm • 2 1 • view
this is not exactly mentioned in your bio -- but -- why should we pass it up ? it's either really really bad or really really good -- or bad bad good. maybe even good good bad. and i enjoy your posts. response not necessary, especially if you got sad from it ... here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N0K...
aug 29, 2025, 12:07 am • 1 0 • view
The reality show president doing what he does best, creating PR illusions that people are supposed to think are real to help transform reality, just like how The Apprentice gave him money and power well beyond what he had at the time and how they portrayed him.
aug 28, 2025, 1:42 pm • 484 37 • view
🎯🎯🎯
aug 28, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I will never forgive Mark Burnett may every single Yiddish curse happen to him and his descendants for generations.
aug 28, 2025, 4:41 pm • 5 0 • view
They’re actually saying what a fucking disgrace.
aug 28, 2025, 2:23 pm • 50 1 • view
How do we know it’s tRump? I don’t see his poxxed hand
aug 28, 2025, 2:36 pm • 10 0 • view
Yes, it's all a simulation but the intent is to win over, by conditioning, the weaker minded amongst the occupiers. Slowly they turn, inch by inch, step by step...
aug 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 50 2 • view
And sometimes not all that slowly!
aug 28, 2025, 4:45 pm • 13 0 • view
Yup. The speed at which they're moving is oftputting. I just had to get in that line from the Niagra skit.
aug 28, 2025, 6:03 pm • 8 0 • view
Niagara. Just to be particular.
aug 30, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 11:59 am • 1 0 • view
He hired nothing but media creatures like himself. Even if this is Hesgreth staging a Fox News shoot, he’s only there because Trump is there weaving the reality show around himself like he always does while everyone else rushes to execute their most racist, sexist, pro-slavery policy of their dreams
aug 28, 2025, 4:03 pm • 8 1 • view
Agreed!
aug 28, 2025, 4:44 pm • 2 0 • view
With the prompts inspired by reality television. Lots of reflection on the reality TV aesthetics of Trumpism, but the artificial power dynamics of voting off, firing, etc play a key role too
aug 28, 2025, 1:56 pm • 11 2 • view
📌
aug 28, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Prop Joe’s “look the part, be the part” (derogatory).
aug 28, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
From 1945-1991, US kids learned ‘country with President face banners, soldiers on street=BAD!!’ I was one of them. It was visceral, not intellectual. As soon as Wall St could invest in Russia and China, that ended. Old Republicans aren’t hypocrites. They prioritize private wealth over democracy.
aug 28, 2025, 2:44 pm • 2 0 • view
I have been thinking about Debord nonstop for the last couple of years. Its very hard to read parts of Society of the Spectacle and not just go "Oh this is straightforwardly correct."
aug 28, 2025, 1:49 pm • 20 1 • view
Been thinking a lot about Debord lately. This has been on my reading list www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
aug 28, 2025, 1:59 pm • 10 0 • view
In cheaply mimicking a past that didn’t exist, with its fake antique farm implements and frozen-to-table home cooked meals, Cracker Barrel has managed to become an actual facet of American dining culture.
aug 29, 2025, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
Or, per Terry Pratchett, "things that look like things often look more like things than things."
aug 29, 2025, 5:13 am • 1 0 • view
Fake it til you
aug 28, 2025, 1:41 pm • 6 0 • view
meta
aug 28, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
IOW: Trying to craft a self-fulfilling prophecy, and being mad when the little folk aren't cooperating even after the bigger folk have given in under the air of inevitability.
aug 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 2 0 • view
With respect for what Guy Debord wrote about spectacle, Roland Barthes' "The World of Wrestling" is the OG primer (in post-WW2 French discourse)
aug 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 7 0 • view
One of my best undergrad classes involved reading _Mythologies_ alongside Livy and we got into things like the semiotics of Tom Cruise's hair (c. 1999). Bless the Common Core.
aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 7 0 • view
My teacher for that: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._R._J...
aug 28, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
web.mit.edu/21l.432/www/...
aug 28, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Completely appropriate Debord citation, possibly a first. Respect.
aug 28, 2025, 4:29 pm • 4 0 • view
I’ve been thinking about Baudrillard a lot—also associated with the situationists—and his “precession of simulacra,” Trump and hyperreality.
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 6 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 3:45 pm • 2 1 • view
aug 28, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Not yet, but we’re heading there quickly. The really sad thing about this is how many “Americans” think this is just fine.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Jamelle, it’s a fake it till you make it thing. Always the case the Cheetolini.
aug 28, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
can someone tell the ruling class that or
aug 28, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 0 • view
He saw the apple ad and was weirdly jealous
aug 28, 2025, 2:43 pm • 5 0 • view
We do live in that state
aug 28, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Kinda like the fake 'boardroom' on The Apprentice. It's all fake.
aug 28, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
This is so American too. Not the good part, obviously. It reminds me of an Umberto Eco essay on American obsession with authentic replicas of European things.
aug 28, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
We appear to be getting there rather quickly
aug 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
If we sit on our hands we will be soon. Gotta get yourself and your friends to vote out the incumbents come midterm!
aug 28, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, this is how reality TV works, so it makes sense that he thinks this is how real life works.
aug 28, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh yes we do. Why don’t you ask the people who are being abducted off the streets since Trump took office whether or not Olympus has fallen yet? If it’s fallen them then it has fallen for all of us. As above, so below.
aug 28, 2025, 1:40 pm • 3 0 • view
An authoritarian vision board, if you will
aug 28, 2025, 3:45 pm • 5 0 • view
It seems like other authoritarian states used aesthetics to create facts on the ground -- Mussolini's imagery and parades of blackshirts masked a fairly normal police environment in Rome, and " Birth of a Nation" projected order and power that didn't exist. I'm wondering how different we are.
aug 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 13 0 • view
It’s low rent Mussolini, right down to copying the catchphrase “right about everything”
aug 28, 2025, 1:39 pm • 21 0 • view
Trying to will it into reality. But a lot of institutions are helping.
aug 28, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Actually, you kind of do. Gestapo are on your streets, snatching and disappearing people. Cities - the nation's Capitol- under martial law with tanks roaming everywhere.
aug 28, 2025, 2:23 pm • 5 1 • view
I literally irk when people bring up Stasi or the gestapo because it's an extraordinary claim. Both terrorized the WHOLE population. Until you will continue not seeing White people hanging from a noose for critiquing the regime, then no, it's not Gestapo .
aug 28, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
You sound like a fool. You are in denial. I could care less if you're irked by someone calling it out for what it is. Your denial is meaningless. Better if you face reality. Because denial won't make reality go away. But denial will certainly make it worse.
aug 29, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
You are in denial, because lacking the political science and social History, you go by vibes. Americans need to accept that like the sky is blue the gestapo and Stasi were a threat to everyone, not just select groups
aug 30, 2025, 7:08 am • 0 0 • view
But we do. No "Republican" party member stands up to the Pedophile or goes against what he wants. Yeah, this looks like a wrinkled imitation, but it's only a matter of time before the shooting starts.
aug 28, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Sort of like the sprayed gold Home Depot decals
aug 28, 2025, 2:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Ok but it’s really up there. I think Americans still want to believe we’re special as a form of denial. As if attempts at total control aren’t always a silly spectacle with overblown expectations that continue on too long. The big portraits are always that absurd.
aug 29, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
"Yet" is the terrifying word in that sentence. Trump actually said the other day, "I can do whatever I want, as the president." He really does think he's living in that reality.
aug 28, 2025, 3:33 pm • 3 0 • view
He’s crafting his own reality and relying on people to accept it as a fait accompli. He’s already fabricating titles, how long before he starts wearing the unearned self-awarded “Idi Amin” medals…
aug 28, 2025, 4:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Professional Wrestling as politics. Kayfabe authoritarianism!
aug 28, 2025, 1:40 pm • 16 0 • view