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these chucklefucks are going after MEDICAL JOURNALS now.

FML.

 

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

That there is a man who cries while masturbating in the dark to pegging videos.

Which may be the most dignified, relatable thing about him.

Little wastoid was a "cinematographer" for Benny Johnson.

His education ends at Souls Harbor Christian Academy in Floriduh.  It has an enrollment of 92 students from K to 12 and is a ministry of a pentecostal (tongues) church of the same name.

Absolute definition of mediocre, or worse, white guy.

1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

Little wastoid was a "cinematographer" for Benny Johnson.

His education ends at Souls Harbor Christian Academy in Floriduh.  It has an enrollment of 92 students from K to 12 and is a ministry of a pentecostal (tongues) church of the same name.

Absolute definition of mediocre, or worse, white guy.

Man, one of the chuckle-worthy, yet horrific ironies of this movement, is how they have screamed "NO MORE DEI!  MERIT-BASED HIRING ONLY!".....and have then put on a clinic on how to hire the least-qualified chucklefucks in the history of chucklefuckery.

These assholes would drive a decorated female F-18 pilot out of the Navy to replace her with a pimple-faced virgin who struggled to get past the beginner level of Microsoft's Flight Simulator.  And then declare that a triumph of "merit over DEI."

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Man, one of the chuckle-worthy, yet horrific ironies of this movement, is how they have screamed "NO MORE DEI!  MERIT-BASED HIRING ONLY!".....and have then put on a clinic on how to hire the least-qualified chucklefucks in the history of chucklefuckery.

These assholes would drive a decorated female F-18 pilot out of the Navy to replace her with a pimple-faced virgin who struggled to get past the beginner level of Microsoft's Flight Simulator.  And then declare that a triumph of "merit over DEI."

We all know what "merit" means.

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7 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I completely believe that this specific mediocrity will ensure our country is not a force to be reckoned with.  Warrior ethos right here folks.

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Oh no.

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2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Oh no.

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Doubling down.  The Trump idiocy way.

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Random Awful Realization of the Day:

 

All this time, we thought the GOP was using the NRA money and gun lobby to win elections.  In hindsight, that was a secondary benefit.  What they were chiefly doing was making sure that the armed contingent of Americans was firmly in their corner.  These are the people who have wet dreams about taking up arms against a tyrannical government.  How do you create a tyrannical government and not have to face that?  You support their right to bear arms.  You back them, vehemently, so that they come into your fold wholeheartedly, where you can indoctrinate them so completely, over the course of about thirty years, that they won't even be able to tell that you've instituted a tyrannical regime until it's too late.  You subjugate them last.

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One thing that is under-recognized is how much the destruction and cooption of institutions will necessitate the types of purges and investigations that Trump has embarked on in bad faith.  ICE, for instance, is going to need to be dismantled and rebuilt as something else.  Any civil and maybe military officer over a certain rank will need to be closely questioned as to what they did. Any hire or fast riser under DJT— suspect. 
 

Democrats need to start planning ahead, researching what post-Communist nations did in terms of lustration. That’s better than de-Baathification.

4 minutes ago, safe sex said:

This is a huge part of the authoritarian playbook.  Push people into more and more compromised actions until they fear that if the regime goes down, they do to.  It’d a classic way to get even people who don’t like you to hesitate at taking action to remove you. That’s why the Dems need to anticipate, plan, and communicate accordingly.  You have to give people off-ramps where you can do so. 

It was a good article for sure, but I was posting more for the novelty of Bill Kristol finally endorsing the "Abolish ICE" movement 

Also why didn't my BSky embed?

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team trump will have it all wrapped up by the end of the year 

midterms will not matter. the new house / senate will be toothless 

13 minutes ago, safe sex said:

It was a good article for sure, but I was posting more for the novelty of Bill Kristol finally endorsing the "Abolish ICE" movement 

Also why didn't my BSky embed?

This reply covers that pretty well

 

I miss the good old days when all we had to worry about was a moron adding a journalist to a text thread with a drunk cabinet member sending around war plans. 

nice words but he didn't destroy shit

Rubio is such a Cuck
 
 

Receipts, Little Marco. We have them.
10 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

What is that lapel pin he is wearing?  I'm sure it's some dotard grift, but specifically what

I think it's a price tag

With the FDA unable to monitor the food supply, grocers like HEB will have to set up their own labs.

Get ready to pay or grow your own produce.

Rubio is the ONE guy I didn't expect to go full-on fascist with thos regime, bit he's really taken to it with aplomb.

Why? He has been a little bitch his entire career. Biden tried to help him with Ukraine but he defaulted to back to who he really is.
11 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Random Awful Realization of the Day:

 

All this time, we thought the GOP was using the NRA money and gun lobby to win elections.  In hindsight, that was a secondary benefit.  What they were chiefly doing was making sure that the armed contingent of Americans was firmly in their corner.  These are the people who have wet dreams about taking up arms against a tyrannical government.  How do you create a tyrannical government and not have to face that?  You support their right to bear arms.  You back them, vehemently, so that they come into your fold wholeheartedly, where you can indoctrinate them so completely, over the course of about thirty years, that they won't even be able to tell that you've instituted a tyrannical regime until it's too late.  You subjugate them last.

This hit you now?  They were never about fighting a tyrannical government, it was always about playing with toys.  They just seduced people with the fantasy.   Unfortunately, they were never challenged and broken even after it came out how corrupt they were and how they were just funnelling russian money/bribes.  

10 minutes ago, Nivek said:

This hit you now?  They were never about fighting a tyrannical government, it was always about playing with toys.  They just seduced people with the fantasy.   Unfortunately, they were never challenged and broken even after it came out how corrupt they were and how they were just funnelling russian money/bribes.  

Yeah, I get all of that.  But it always seemed like it was about buying elections.  I mean, that's what we all thought.

What I'm saying is that I now think this entire fascist gameplan goes back at least 30 years, and a part of it was controlling the gun nuts so completely that they'd never have to worry about them rising up when it got to the final implementation.

It might actually be the longest long game ever played.  I think they knew what the end game would be all the way back when they founded Fox News.

See also: pumping their horde full of every conspiracy theory they could think of so that they'd miss the biggest conspiracy of all right under their noses.  Every accusation really is a confession.

 

36 minutes ago, Nivek said:


Why? He has been a little bitch his entire career. Biden tried to help him with Ukraine but he defaulted to back to who he really is.

I probably should have worded it more precisely or with more context to mean the "one person chosen as a member of this Cabinet," which still would’ve been wrong, of course, because here we are. It's not like I expected him to be some savior of liberal democracy. But, yeah, you allude to him turning his back on Ukraine, and I had his previously strong support for them in mind when I typed that up. I was just surprised by how really objectively awful his quick embrace of authoritarianism would be. Mea culpa.

12 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Yeah, I get all of that.  But it always seemed like it was about buying elections.  I mean, that's what we all thought.

What I'm saying is that I now think this entire fascist gameplan goes back at least 30 years, and a part of it was controlling the gun nuts so completely that they'd never have to worry about them rising up when it got to the final implementation.

It might actually be the longest long game ever played.  I think they knew what the end game would be all the way back when they founded Fox News.

See also: pumping their horde full of every conspiracy theory they could think of so that they'd miss the biggest conspiracy of all right under their noses.  Every accusation really is a confession.

 

They’re not remotely smart enough to hatch a 30 year plan.  All this fell in their lap as America has gotten lazier, fatter, dumber, and browner.

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50 minutes ago, tx ind said:

They’re not remotely smart enough to hatch a 30 year plan.  All this fell in their lap as America has gotten lazier, fatter, dumber, and browner.

Oh, the people behind the scenes -- the Mnuchins, Millers, Bannons, etc -- are plenty smart enough.

And the GOP has been actively working to make America lazier, fatter, and especially dumber.

I don't believe that they just lucked into this.  I'd rather believe that, honestly, but I can't.

20 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Oh, the people behind the scenes -- the Mnuchins, Millers, Bannons, etc -- are plenty smart enough.

And the GOP has been actively working to make America lazier, fatter, and especially dumber.

I don't believe that they just lucked into this.  I'd rather believe that, honestly, but I can't.

Yep. Trump is just the useful idiot for the puppet masters pulling the strings. 

2 hours ago, Nivek said:


Why? He has been a little bitch his entire career. Biden tried to help him with Ukraine but he defaulted to back to who he really is.

Yes. Saw this article and thought it was interesting.

Peter Marocco, the Trump administration official in charge of dismantling USAID, left a meeting at the White House last week to return to his office at the State Department. But when he arrived, Marocco could not enter the building: security told him he was no longer an employee there, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Word of Marocco’s firing quickly tore through the Republican Party and MAGA ecosystem, startling President Donald Trump’s loyalists who viewed the aide as part of an elite cohort of administration true believers. Loud voices on the right piled on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, accusing him of undermining their disruptive agenda.

Yet Marocco’s abrupt termination, which has not been fully reported until now, was not an impulsive dismissal or a case of Rubio going rogue. This report was based on conversations with five people, including administration officials and allies, all of whom were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters. Four of the people said Rubio fired Marocco. They gave varying explanations: one administration official said Rubio and others wanted Marocco out due to what they saw as his bulldozer operating style and failure to work effectively with colleagues; others pointed to substantive disagreements between Rubio and Marocco over how to dismantle USAID. Meanwhile, Marocco allies viewed Rubio and his team as insular, controlling and obstructionist to the DOGE agenda ordered by the president.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/18/marco-rubio-peter-marocco-usaid-firing-00297812

11 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

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Watch him and a few others closely.

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Noted conservative David Brooks calling for a revolution (basically):

What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.

In the beginning there was agony. Under the empires of old, the strong did what they willed and the weak suffered what they must.

But over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization: Constitutions to restrain power, international alliances to promote peace, legal systems to peacefully settle disputes, scientific institutions to cure disease, news outlets to advance public understanding, charitable organizations to ease suffering, businesses to build wealth and spread prosperity, and universities to preserve, transmit and advance the glories of our way of life. These institutions make our lives sweet, loving and creative, rather than nasty, brutish and short.

Trumpism is threatening all of that. It is primarily about the acquisition of power — power for its own sake. It is a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless men, so of course any institutions that might restrain power must be weakened or destroyed. Trumpism is about ego, appetite and acquisitiveness and is driven by a primal aversion to the higher elements of the human spirit — learning, compassion, scientific wonder, the pursuit of justice.

So far, we have treated the various assaults of President Trump and the acolytes in his administration as a series of different attacks. In one lane they are going after law firms. In another they savaged U.S.A.I.D. In another they’re attacking our universities. On yet another front they’re undermining NATO and on another they’re upending global trade.

But that’s the wrong way to think about it. These are not separate battles. This is a single effort to undo the parts of the civilizational order that might restrain Trump’s acquisition of power. And it will take a concerted response to beat it back.

So far, each sector Trump has assaulted has responded independently — the law firms seek to protect themselves, the universities, separately, try to do the same. Yes, a group of firms banded together in support of the firm Perkins Coie, but in other cases it’s individual law firms trying to secure their separate peace with Trump. Yes, Harvard eventually drew a line in the sand, but Columbia cut a deal. This is a disastrous strategy that ensures that Trump will trample on one victim after another. He divides and conquers.

Slowly, many of us are realizing that we need to band together. But even these efforts are insular and fragmented. Several members of the Big Ten conference are working on forming an alliance to defend academic freedom. Good. But that would be 18 schools out of roughly 4,000 degree-granting American colleges and universities.

So far, the only real hint of something larger — a mass countermovement — has been the rallies led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this too is an ineffective way to respond to Trump; those partisan rallies make this fight seem like a normal contest between Democrats and Republicans.

What is happening now is not normal politics. We’re seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to — Democrat, independent or Republican.

It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.

Peoples throughout history have done exactly this when confronted by an authoritarian assault. In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works,” Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan looked at hundreds of nonviolent uprisings. These movements used many different tools at their disposal — lawsuits, mass rallies, strikes, work slowdowns, boycotts and other forms of noncooperation and resistance.

These movements began small and built up. They developed clear messages that appealed to a variety of groups. They shifted the narrative so the authoritarians were no longer on permanent offense. Sometimes they used nonviolent means to provoke the regime into taking violent action, which shocks the nation, undercuts the regime’s authority and further strengthens the movement. (Think of the civil rights movement at Selma.) Right now, Trumpism is dividing civil society; if done right, the civic uprising can begin to divide the forces of Trumpism.

Chenoweth and Stephan emphasize that this takes coordination. There doesn’t always have to be one charismatic leader, but there does have to be one backbone organization, one coordinating body that does the work of coalition building.

In his book “Upheaval,” Jared Diamond looked at countries that endured crises and recovered. He points out that the nations that recover don’t catastrophize — they don’t say everything is screwed up and we need to burn it all down. They take a careful inventory of what is working well and what is working poorly. Leaders assume responsibility for their own share of society’s problems.

This struck me as essential advice for Americans today. We live in a country with catastrophically low levels of institutional trust. University presidents, big law firms, media organizations and corporate executives face a wall of skepticism and cynicism. If they are going to participate in a mass civic uprising against Trump, they have to show the rest of the country that they understand the establishment sins that gave rise to Trump in the first place. They have to show that they are democratically seeking to reform their institutions. This is not just defending the establishment; it’s moving somewhere new. [NOTE: This is a point that Buttigieg has been making in the last couple of weeks. There's no rebuilding what will have been lost if/once this is all over. We're going to have to build something new to replace some of the shit that kinda didn't work anymore for everyone.]

Let’s take the universities. I’ve been privileged to teach at American universities off and on for nearly 30 years and I get to visit a dozen or two others every year. These are the crown jewels of American life. They are hubs of scientific and entrepreneurial innovation. In a million ways, the scholars at universities help us understand ourselves and our world.

I have seen it over and over: A kid comes on campus as a freshman, inquisitive but unformed. By senior year, there is something impressive about her. She is awakened, cultured, a critical thinker. The universities have performed their magic once again.

People flock from all over the world to admire our universities.

But like all institutions, they have their flaws. Many have allowed themselves to become shrouded in a stifling progressivism that tells half the country: Your voices don’t matter. Through admissions policies that favor rich kids, the elite universities have contributed to a diploma divide. If the same affluent families come out on top generation after generation, then no one should be surprised if the losers flip over the table.

In other words, a civic uprising has to have a short-term vision and a long-term vision. Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits. Turn some of his followers against him. The second is a long-term vision of a fairer society that is not just hard on Trump, but hard on the causes of Trumpism — one that offers a positive vision. Whether it’s the universities, the immigration system or the global economy, we can’t go back to the status quo that prevailed when Trump first rode down the escalator.

I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

Oh, the people behind the scenes -- the Mnuchins, Millers, Bannons, etc -- are plenty smart enough.

And the GOP has been actively working to make America lazier, fatter, and especially dumber.

I don't believe that they just lucked into this.  I'd rather believe that, honestly, but I can't.

I don't think it was a grand conspiracy.  But I do think a series of actions allowed for other exploitations to occur which in turn snowballed into Russia/Trump.   

I think the country is slowly waking up. But I don’t see one coordinated effort yet. That one group or person. Bernie and AOC are trying I guess, but someone needs to step up. Maybe this gets Van Hollen going. Would prefer someone younger but whatever it takes

2 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I don't think it was a grand conspiracy.  But I do think a series of actions allowed for other exploitations to occur which in turn snowballed into Russia/Trump.   

The far right christofascists have been planning this since at least Reagan, probably earlier. 

14 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

One thing that is under-recognized is how much the destruction and cooption of institutions will necessitate the types of purges and investigations that Trump has embarked on in bad faith.  ICE, for instance, is going to need to be dismantled and rebuilt as something else.  Any civil and maybe military officer over a certain rank will need to be closely questioned as to what they did. Any hire or fast riser under DJT— suspect. 
 

Democrats need to start planning ahead, researching what post-Communist nations did in terms of lustration. That’s better than de-Baathification.

And it is going to be so costly.  Part of me wants "the left" to go on a similar wEApoNiZation campaign before returning to normalcy, if it ever regains power.

17 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

I think the country is slowly waking up. But I don’t see one coordinated effort yet. That one group or person. Bernie and AOC are trying I guess, but someone needs to step up. Maybe this gets Van Hollen going. Would prefer someone younger but whatever it takes

Need a moderate or conservative to lead the charge

17 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I don't think it was a grand conspiracy.  But I do think a series of actions allowed for other exploitations to occur which in turn snowballed into Russia/Trump.   

Yeah, ultimately this whole mess is a coalition of kind of previously disenfranchised outliers whose interests are probably only temporarily aligned.  There have already been some examples of circular firing squads that may get worse.

22 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

The far right christofascists have been planning this since at least Reagan, probably earlier. 

1964

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37 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

The far right christofascists have been planning this since at least Reagan, probably earlier. 

Fascism has had its place within the American conservative movement for damn near 100 years. It took them a few generations to fully take over the GOP, but Trump's rise put them over the top.

  1. 1930s: America First movement, Charles Lindbergh, Father Coughlin, paleo-conservatives.
  2. 1950s: Red Scare, McCarthyism.
  3. 1960s-1980s: Realignment of the parties with Southern segregationists leaving the Party, with anti-abortion Evangelicals tagging along (often one in the same); Nixon's corruption and the start of the War on Drugs; pissed off Vietnam Vets forming the backbone of the modern gun movement, NRA, Soldier of Fortune magazine; conservative think tanks established; Ronnie Raygun.
  4. 1990s-2000s: Pat Buchanan's xenophobia (anti-immigrant, Islamophobia) and economic nationalism, 9-11 Freedumb Fries bullshit got added to the mix; Libaugh and FOX News.
  5. 2010-present: Trumpism (a true authoritarian, strong "business man" finally discovered to pick up the mantle); aided by social media.

It's certainly been a progression. Planned or not. This is my interpretation and summary of how we got to this point.

 

Edit: I should've started with the 1920s with its anti-immigrant movement and the rise of the KKK as a national movement. And, of course, a lot of that shit just goes back to the Civil War/Reconstruction and Jewish, Italian, and Eastern European immigration during the Gilded Age.

There's a singular ideological tent pole holding the whole thing up.

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25 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

The far right christofascists have been planning this since at least Reagan, probably earlier. 

And the Klan, Manson Family, and American Nazi's.  That doesn't mean it is a conspiracy.

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Josh Gad gets it

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3 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Oh, the people behind the scenes -- the Mnuchins, Millers, Bannons, etc -- are plenty smart enough.

And the GOP has been actively working to make America lazier, fatter, and especially dumber.

I don't believe that they just lucked into this.  I'd rather believe that, honestly, but I can't.

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