@shanksi.bsky.social
Professional clickerer and presser of buttons. I count stuff in London. Things that make me ick: Trump, Putin, Brexit, Elon, Farage, the Tories, cults and above all, liars. The truth matters.
For the life of me I've never understood why the press and the political class find it so difficult to talk about Donald Trump's severe and manifest personality disorders.
These disorders may be impossible for any professional to treat, but they are easily understandable to any ...
Every time he gets a question he doesn’t want to answer it’s the same playbook: “Who are you with? Fake news, I’m not answering.” Who they are with is irrelevant - his PAC sent out a fundraiser using a photo of a coffin to raise money. I don’t care who the reporter is.
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering right now.
The dude is circling the drain. He’s now calling on people in media to be imprisoned for treason if they don’t report on the war to his liking.
The MAGA bubble simply is NOT going to break, regardless of how bad the Trump/GOP stories get. 30-40% of the public are hearing/reading nothing but right wing spin due to our toxified, consolidated, plutocrat-owned media. That's the #1 problem that will have to be dealt with.
Ideally the President of the United States and the stupidest person on the planet should be two different people…
@deadder.bsky.social
I regret to inform America that this was just posted by the HHS Secretary.
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
If you think he cares about gas prices, housing costs, home electricity costs, inflation, no jobs, troops getting killed, grocery prices, health care costs, or anything else that would improve the lives of most Americans, you are wrong.
The Strait of Hormuz is perfectly safe...
I've never quite known how to say it, but just as Donald Trump is the physical embodiment of every negative American stereotype, Nigel Farage is the physical embodiment of every negative British stereotype, if that makes sense.
I posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians
This is just the latest example I've seen, but it is really bleak how much political content on social media these days is being sponsored by dark money interest groups and how many content creators have been willing to take the cash and keep quiet about it.
i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price
electricity water clean air knowledge
you name it
they should be treated like the common thieves they are
Under fascism, the military and the police forces have always cooperated and collaborated readily and enthusiastically with the regime. We overestimate individual members’ resolve; they’re soldiers/police precisely because they follow any and all orders delivered down the chain of command.
“Likely disfigured.” Anyone else find this phrase deeply weird? As if all that matters is appearance?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
Is disfigurment now a DoD, Sorry, DoW strategy? Has the US ever used the phrase "disfigurment" when in combat before? It's like the current White House regime is revelling in just degrading and eroding whatever the fuck was left of human deceny in the US.
Hahahhahahahaha toy soldier really hopes you think the military academy is the military!
It ain’t lol
The last time I watched Question Time was over 20 years ago. I stopped watching because is was obvious that the panel was, way back then, being picked towards a right wing narrative. Now, the same people are back talking the opposite. WTF?
Don't stop talking about the EPSTEIN FILES
Americas white christian fundamentalism can be traced all the way back to when the #Mayflower first landed on America and ever since then, religious fundamentalism has never left the American psyche.
I think it’s safe to say Trump is unlikely to successfully defend his FIFA Peace Prize championship this year
#Trump lied? Trump has liabeties.
America is run by idiots. Idiots is the the wrong word. America is run by imbeciles. Imbeciles is the wrong word. America is now run by youtubers, influencers, sociapaths and those that kneel to emperor trump. These are the right words.
this means it is not open for transit
The net tightens even further in Russia just like the new further tightens in the USA.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s great-granddaughter, Nina, was designated as a "foreign agent" today by the Russian govt. She's been a public liberal intellectual for years, of course, but it still feels like another milestone for the Putin regime. t.me/ostorozhno_n...