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A parody of the famous evolution of man depiction. On top is the original as an ape evolved into man. In the bottom the man is one of the generals at Dover Air Force base and moving backwards through another officer, Hegseth, JD Vance and, finally, the most primitive, cerebrally underdeveloped cretin of all, a hunched orange felon at the back

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The Perfect Children of Húrin Song 🎶 1/x

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Having faced no consequences for anything, Trump has noticed that he has the world’s largest military at his command, and believes he has found a brilliant solution for solving problems that no one before him was smart enough to discover: just kill everyone in your way, until they obey you.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

“We’ll have the robot do all the boring parts of riding the bike, all the early falls and years of struggle. You can just jump on for the mountain stages at the Tour de France.”

Everclear, Dashboard, Violent Femmes, Thire Eye Blind and GOO GOO DOLLS on the same freaking day????????

Good on Clinton for her response to this.

It's a perfect example of how the GOP refuses to play by the rules THEY set, let alone be held accountable by the rules the American people have set for them.

Back when MTV was just music videos and you could just play it in the background like radio.

One of the biggest complaints in 91 was “why didn’t we finish the job” and that’s because President Bush held strictly to the UN mandate and ceases offensive operations once Iraqi Forces were removed from Kuwait.

It’s wild to watch children who didn’t live through it retcon it as another Bush War

Chart showing the relationship between gasoline futures prices (advanced 2w) and national average gasoline prices

Attacking Iran looks like it will cost US consumers about 40 cents/gallon.

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

A thing about illegal wars of aggression is that they're just murder

We understand this with Putin's war in Ukraine, we understand it with the Caribbean boat strikes. It's no less true here. Our government is engaged in a policy of murder, basically for fun

10 CREATE EMERGENCY;
20 DECLARE EMERGENCY POWERS;
30 GOTO 10

JUSTICE GORSUCH: — we shouldn’t be concerned with — I want you to explain to me how you draw the line, because you say we shouldn’t be concerned because this is foreign affairs, the President has inherent authority, and so delegation off the books more or less. GENERAL SAUER: Or at least — JUSTICE GORSUCH: And if that’s true, what would — what would prohibit Congress from just abdicating all responsibility to regulate foreign commerce, for that matter, declare war to the President? [snip] JUSTICE GORSUCH: Can you give me a reason to accept it, though? That’s what I’m struggling and waiting for. What’s the reason to accept the notion that Congress can hand off the power to declare war to the President? GENERAL SAUER: Well, we don’t contend that. Again, that would be — JUSTICE GORSUCH: Well, you do. You say it’s unreviewable, that there’s no manageable standard, nothing to be done. And now you’re — I think you — tell me if I’m wrong. You’ve backed off that position. GENERAL SAUER: Maybe that’s fair to say. JUSTICE GORSUCH: Okay. All right. Thank you.

When Neil Gorsuch conceived of the impossibility of Congress abdicating one of its core roles in November, he raised the power to declare war. This was the oral argument for the tariffs that SCOTUS just declared illegal.

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the reason we’re bombing iran is because thats the penis thing to do and not bombing is vagina

The Trump-Flavored Content Administration Understanding the administration as a content mill

Anyway this is what you get when you have a SecDef from a morning show who only cares about “lethality”, a military campaign whose only objective is creating death to put on TV. We’re bombing Iran so we can say we’re bombing Iran and put dead Iranians and rubble on TV. It’s not war, it’s content.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

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....who has operational command in Iran now?

The situation in Minneapolis: even though the ICE presence in the city is greatly reduced, and national attention has moved on, a huge portion of our population remains essentially in hiding, devastating the schools and economy. In particular, much of the education system remains in crisis

maybe the former weekend morning talk show host and the wrestlemania ceo and the podcasters running everything will be able to pull off regime change in one of the most politically complicated areas of the world

Huh I wonder why the right wing billionaires who own all the major social platforms fill my lefty friends' feeds with "leftist" content about how the Democrats are awful and there's no point voting for them because it won't bring any real change. No reason, I'm sure.

You are not immune to propaganda.

"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

When I lived in Erie, by February, if it got over 40, people were walking around in t-shirts. Whereas, when I lived in Florida, if it dropped below 60, people were getting out their one sweater, coat, and hat, like they were artic explorers.

Well, 78 degrees indoors is different from 78 degrees outdoors, although I'd argue that either is too hot.

This poor man, who was blind, was first forced to plead guilty to trespassing and weapons possession to get released because he accidentally wandered onto a woman’s porch using a curtain rod as a cane (that’s the weapon) and she called police.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.