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  1. I think we all need to understand that the correct historical analogy at this point isn’t Chamberlain in 1938, it’s Stalin in 1939.
  2. “Almost went ‘to hospital.’”
  3. @Laxtonto’s post is good but where it errs is in ascribing entirely too much thought and agency to people like Kellog and understates the extent to which PR drives current actions of Trump, more than Biden. That’s not a critique, it’s just that intelligent people nearly always understate how truly stupid this is. Anything you see stated by Kellog or Rubio or Waltz is just retconned justification of whatever Trump has announced. There is zero active planning or strategy. It’s all aimed at two goals of DJT: a summit with Putin and being told he “ended the war.” Right now the Russians have suggested that both things can happen and a general outline has emerged: 1. negotiations begin 2. elections in Ukraine 3. peace deal We seek to be amendable to this and it will result in a total Russian victory because in step two we will acquiesce— or maybe assist— to Russia installing a pro-Kremlin puppet. On the margins we may agree to further concessions in Europe. But the point is that no one aside from Trump and Musk are acting with any agency here and they are in complete react mode. And that is bad enough but what is worse is that there ARE some people acting with agency on other fronts. A despite the mantra of a “realist” foreign policy they are in fact behaving like wild eyed revolutionaries bent on exporting ideology. And their animating purpose is attacking liberal democracy, wherever it exists, as the primary threat to the United States’ current regime. And in a sense they are correct, because Russia and China are happy to let Trump destroy us while liberal democratic Europe, Canada, and the Anglosphere are more likely inspire us to course correct and help us do it. In this we have internalized Putinism. The threat Ukraine posed was always ideological and not military; a free and prosperous democratic Ukraine would show Russians that it was possible.
  4. I’ve been on Signal for six years and for a long time it was just me and my most paranoid friends but now everyone is there. I only had like three active convos and now I actually have to be conscious about what chat I’m responding to.
  5. There is no bottom. These rapists and human traffickers support Trump and are popular among his repulsive voters. So we support them.
  6. Don’t worry ladies, you still won’t have to have a transgender person in your bicycle race.
  7. The people getting screwed here almost certainly chose to take the “Fork” over getting terminated within their probationary period. And they were almost certainly fired illegally because the muskrats are telling people they are being terminated for performance en masse, even those with great reviews. And now they’re getting fucked. It’s not so much trusting Musk and Trump so much as people trying to grasp for a straw in a shitty situation. A reminder that authoritarian states try to divide the people they victimize against each other.
  8. This is the correct opinion.
  9. Adult converts to Catholicism are the best because they generally cite apostolic succession and authority as a prime reason for conversion and then their brains break when the Pope tells them they’re wrong.
  10. I do not believe there is a tabloid reporter, I think that Ashley crashed out because it was Valentine’s Day and she realized she had a child with the worlds richest man who won’t even call her.
  11. I hope your son will stay in. The goal here is to make officers like your son leave in disgust and make soldiers like the one quoted stay. That is also what’s behind the purge of the civil service, it’s nothing to do with efficiency or saving money for the taxpayer.
  12. I’ve lost track of the number of lawsuits that the sitting POTUS has against media outlets who said things he didn’t like. Caroline Leavitt said the AP was pushing “misinformation” at the same time JD claimed that “misinformation and disinformation” are Soviet terms. (He is right on the last one, Soviet intel coined the term and taught its practice). JD Vance’s speech combined with a meeting with AfD was first red meat for his idiot base and second an announcement that the United States is controlled by the extreme right and it will work to advance the extreme right in Europe.
  13. He is officially a Special Government Employee in the White House. I haven’t seen his title released, usually it’s something like Senior Advisor. I struggle with a historical analogy. Grand Vizier to one of the more decadent Sultans? Rasputin?
  14. Surprised this hasn’t made it here. Number 13 with I believe the fifth woman? Also, I think only all were conceived via IVD save Grimes’.
  15. Alt National Park Service exploded because they are good, factual place to get some insight on what is going on inside federal agencies from the inside. Same reason fednews exploded on Reddit. It’s actually the algorithm working as it should, organic traffic to the page boosting its visibility.
  16. Kamala delivered well-structured and thoughtful speeches three times at MSC, it was kind of her thing and Biden very notably assigned it to her. When you cook yourself in contrarian alternative media as Anastasia has, you become extremely ignorant in the classic sense. You just don’t know what is going on or has happened, no matter how much computing power you have. You end up believing tragically stupid things, like “Kamala could never deliver a good speech in Munich.” Many such cases.
  17. A lot of times people don’t realize when they are in the middle of tremendous historical change. At the moment the United States is experimenting with a dual-executive system. There’s a lot of debate to be had over the balance of powers and whether one is subordinate to the other and how much the functions are truly delegated and/or coordinated. And we will see how long it lasts and what it evolves into. But a future historian writing with remove in space and time will write that Elon Musk served as a co-executive with Trump. He is without question the most powerful non-President to ever hold a position in the executive branch and is more powerful than any cabinet official.
  18. “Move fast and break things! Be a disrupter!” We need to find anyone who ever said that unironically and put them in the new Greenland penal colony. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/index.html
  19. Consider that speech the launch point of his Crusade for Neo-Nazi Dignity. My valve is acting up.
  20. I was mostly talking about the people at MSC, who for decades have gotten our private assurances that we don’t mean the batshit things we tweet.
  21. Every GOP politician in America is fully capable of giving a speech that boils down to “they say we need to worry about Russia and China, but the real enemy is Woke.” I will concede that even now most of the GOP that is worldy enough to travel abroad resist giving that speech to a room full of the CHODs and Defense Ministers we hope might help us fight Russia or China if needed.
  22. No one in that hall was stunned by Vance’s brilliance or eloquence. They were stupefied at one of the most insane and counter-productive speeches ever delivered by an American elected leader overseas. Despite what Americans may believe, Europeans are actually rather less alarmist about America and more inclined to think we will ultimately be normal and it is shocking to see a representative of the superpower behave like Viktor Orban because deep down they still think we are a serious country. The speech wasn’t for them, it was entirely performance art for the base back home. MSC is always partly a showcase for Americans to do that— but the genius of Trump is his ability to make all the implicit scuzzines of politics extremely explicit.
  23. Just to be clear, there are no federal workers being laid off. No one has implemented the federal version of that yet, a RIF. All these probationary employees are being told they’re released for unsatisfactory performance. That’s because even in a probationary role, indiscriminate mass firings are illegal. But it is easy to release a “poor performer” in that period with less documentation and no appeal rights. So they just lie and say everyone was a poor performer. It’s a super shitty thing to do.
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