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bolverk

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  1. Probably a copy/paste of a tweet that's recycling 10-day-old news which, to be honest, would be easy to miss in all the other bullshit that's been going on. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-potential-impact-of-a-trump-takeover-of-usps
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/lech-walesa-trump-letter.html?smid=url-share
  3. I dunno. They're apparently giving us Gaza, the new Club Dead on the Med?
  4. The Senator could be referencing the side we've switched to.
  5. Yes, it includes what's already been approved and is in the pipeline. All military aid has been cut.
  6. Don't know if Icono/Macklemore is into the tech part of this shit, but it sounds akin to the New Right monarchy he's obsessed with. In a nutshell, Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment political worldview is that the REAL power in the U.S. resides in an informal collaboration of universities and the mainstream media (that he calls "the Cathedral") which collude to sway public opinion. He admires the former Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping for his "pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism," believes America's commitment to equality and justice "erodes social order," and advocates for an American "monarch" to dissolve elite academic institutions and media outlets asap. A regular speaker at various Libertarian and techno-fascist conferences, Yarvin's position is that democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign corporations whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power over the country/corporation. As Yarvin explains it, "Unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, the executive could rule like a CEO-Monarch." And just in case it still isn't abundantly clear what Curtis Yarvin thinks is the solution to what ails America, here it is in his most straightforward phrasing: "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."
  7. Go google the word "hurricane" and then click the News header right now. This is "the news."
  8. *he was run over. Learn to speak English properly, GRUhorn. It's now *our* official national language. You might perceive that as a trivial grammatical error, but that would be an incorrect assumption. No, it's an assault on our glorious mother tongue. Continue to insult or debase it in such a manner, and you will face consequences.
  9. Listened to a lot of K-Geezer back when it came out, too, and had also just moved to Austin. Pretty sure I first heard it on that station.
  10. This is the spirit of Texas I miss. Proud? Yes. Boastful? Yes. Confident? Yes. Fun? Yes. Humorous? Yes. Welcoming? Yes. Gotdammit, a fucking aggy wrote the best song in the last half-century that captures the Texas essence I miss.
  11. "When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal, by definition." "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." "L'État, c'est moi."
  12. Here's a little secret about the coalition. It's now more or less evolved into a political group of minority or underprivileged voices for covering each others’ backs, which is why the GQP focuses on and is successful with the time-honored divide and conquer strategy. And, yes, the Democrats, who are sometimes aligned with Progressives, should fully embrace this fact and get a whole lot better about leading with their economic message to Labor.
  13. Well, I believe the TEA gave him the green light following a brief "investigation" of the allegation.
  14. Shigellosis: The first and last time I heard that word was when there was an outbreak caused by tainted lettuce at a fast-food chain back in the 1990s.
  15. The very first time I ever heard that usage was in a casual conversation about 25 years ago when talking to someone from Ohio. At the time, it felt like a wrong note or one that was out of tune being struck, but I couldn't figure out why it sounded so discordant. It actually bugged me off and on for a little while afterward until I realized, "Wait a damn second. She actually meant 'nowadays." Then, I started noticing it used by other Midwesterners and went to look it up, and I feel like I see it more and more nowadays (SWIDT?).
  16. Are you even a native Texan, boy? Because that's some Yankee talk! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore
  17. @Bevo That analysis is kind of rich, coming from The Telegraph, an English paper that endorsed the Russian-backed Brexit campaign, though I'll give them credit for now knowing the game being played. They're still being a little too kind in their judgment of this regime, as you can see in this statement: Donald Trump seems blissfully unaware of Russia’s track record – or at least doesn’t care. He has launched a mission to reset ties with Moscow and promised “to get that war over” in Ukraine. In doing so, he has shocked the international community by upending Western foreign policy, reopening ties with the Russian president and ruling out offering US security guarantees or Nato membership for Ukraine. They're missing a third, much more likely reason for the new American regime's acquiescence and embrace of Putin's stance: Trump is fully aware of Russia's track record and embraces it. “Vranyo” is a Russian word for a specific type of lying. “I once translated it for one of our ministers as ‘epic, bare-faced whopper that we both know cannot possibly be true, but I’m going to tell you anyway’,” says Sir Laurie Bristow, who was the UK’s ambassador to Russia from January 2016 until January 2020. It is a concept that sits at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s statecraft. And it is about power. If anyone hasn't figured it out by now, this has always been the MO for the man who's now plopped his plump rump in the Oval Office for decades in all facets of his life: personal, professional, and political. He is a master of this type of lying and does it daily on just about any topic imaginable. He's doing it right now with all his demands, bluster, and lies about Zelenskyy and Ukraine starting the war. When an asshole lies to your face, and you know he's lying, and he knows you know he's lying, but you go ahead and do his bidding, or you continue to support him, then he knows he has power over you and can do anything he wishes. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." It's regrettable and maybe even embarrassing to be fooled by a lie, but to go along with it is complicit cowardice. So, now that the mask has come off, the question is: What are we going to do about it? What can we do about it?
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  19. Oh, 100% agreed. Same as UKIP (also Kremlin-backed) with Brexit, separating them from Europe. It's the time-honored divide and conquer strategy.
  20. I think it took me about 4 hours to watch it yesterday for the same reason.
  21. The role we were playing for Ukraine was very much akin to the one France played for us versus the UK, minus the actual fighting alongside the Continental Army part. It offers an interesting speculative historical scenario to play out how the US would be different today had they not come to our aid. It'd certainly be a cool topic to discuss with some of the smarty-pants amateur historians around here. Maybe we'd be Canada's 51st state instead, which doesn't seem too bad right about now.
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