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trump is a narcissist. Dead soldiers don't make him look good. This does not feed his ego so he has likely ordered a veil on the dead soldiers arriving to protect his image.

Its a mix. I am an atheist. But I have know Christians that wielded their dogma like a club. And I have known Christians that welcomed doubt and held nothing against those that believed differently. In the end I believe it boils down to how dogmatic a sect or person holds their beliefs to be.

Why War With Iran Is Just....A Horrendous Idea YouTube video by AlternateHistoryHub

The Youtube algorithm has been jamming this into my feed over and over again. Now I share it with you. This video is 6 years old.

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It had to be a Kubrick film. Kurosawa didn't release anything in 1964.

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Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Oh wise cat of the sink what is your wisdom of the day?

Teddie: Listen to George!

Because we are in the middle of a constitutional crisis. This has been something dreaded for decades as scholars have been aware of the loopholes and gaps in the constitution to deal with an out of control president. But because the flaws were useful no one ever fixed it.

1/ Russian bloggers are waking up to the fact that they live in an oppressive dictatorship with declining living standards. 14 years after Vladimir Putin was reelected as "a strong leader for a great country," commentators are asking: what has Putin ever done for us? ⬇️

He has blasted the people with conflicting opinions deliberately to confound them and render their ability to make sense of the political sphere incomprehensible. Resulting in them looking to him to deal with it. And he gladly speaks for Russia for he is Russia. By design.

Sadists have been flocking to the GOP ever since they started making cruelty be the message. And now they have an honest to goodness Narcissistic Sadist in the WH.

Again. This matters.

The cruelty that has always been the message draws sadists to it. And they have been flocking to the GOP for some time now. And they are lead by the bully in chief. Sadism has been how trump has always gotten his way. Beat people down with wealth and power until they submit.

They were already in the bag claiming he was 6'3" and 213Lbs. trump may have a low standard intelligence. But he has an astounding social adaptivity that allows him to twist people around his fingers.

#iceout
Minnesota still under siege

trump attacks Iran, one of China's allies. Depletes our ammo supply. Why do I feel like I can hear a countdown started for China attacking Taiwan?

Well thats lessons learned from GamerGate. Tie things in to other interests and slide in the political poison so they don't notice it.

And now that we have this hard right uprising going on and wealth beyond imagination being concentrated in fewer hands it become easy for media barrens take over the remaining outlets and force them to their own particular market interests. Taking the viewers with them.

So in effect 3 conservative Corporations took hold of the new dominant means of conveying the news. No longer was accuracy and limits the way. It was as the movie Network pitched it News for ratings. But run by conservative owners.

And when Reagan struck down the Fairness Doctrine that was the flag for them to start racing to divide up the markets. CNN had already taken hold of the centerish position (technically a bit to the right). So since Fox came in flailing after the right MSNBC went technically center right aka Liberal.

Its worth pointing out this all started around the time Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine. It wasn't that the Fairness Doctrine directly affected the Cable Companies. But they had been waiting to see what the govt was going to do before they committed to market based 24hr news channels.

The lack of media coverage about the bombing of the girls elementary schools is shocking.

Its not shocking for a shocking reason. Our media has been utterly coopted. And that is the shocking part. It is expected that a captured media is not going to draw attention to the gross missteps of the one holding them captive.

Rob Reiner would have turned 79 today. He is missed.

This conversation with Rich Eisen — talking about directing Nicholson in “A Few Good Men” — is always a delight.

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I can't get over this, from @jonathankarl.bsky.social. Trump is working the phones to journalists, talking about his war as a "performance."

This is actually a bit of the mask slipping. His mental degradation isn't the typical sort people experience. He is losing the frame of things and who he is supposed to be. His mask keeps slipping. And admitting its all a performance is the Narcissist showing his mask.