Uber Steve

Life saving?… probably not

He Drops Trump Jr.’s Name in Pursuit of Billion-Dollar Deals. It’s Getting Awkward. — The Wall Street Journal Gentry Beach, a college friend of the president’s firstborn, has left a trail of confusion abroad as he courts foreign officials and business leaders to lock up investments in mining, oil pipelines an...

Oh my gosh this is not suspicious at all, and I’m sure the party that investigated Hillary for years for losing some money in real estate in the 70s would definitely give this the required close watch for corruption.

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He is now, in essence, an eponym, a historic figure in a league with Stalin or Hitler or Washington or Lincoln. Because he’s the guy who ended America, the (flawed, obviously, but still) greatest liberal democracy in the history of the world, and transformed it in his own image.

So how much of this is trump just wanting to do shit because no one has done it before, and thereby etching his name ever more deeply into the texts of our history books? With every insane action, he’s commanding more books being written about him. Easily in top 3 historic figures of last 200 years.

Don’t make me root for him to be right dammit

Rebirth and Ruin: Understanding Fascism's Appeal with Roger Griffin In this interview, Roger Griffin examines the psychological and ideological roots of fascism and terrorism, emphasizing how modernity's existential crises drive radicalization and extremist violence.

"The Enlightenment hope—that the world would become more enlightened with prosperity, education, and growing social equality—has been proven to be a myth."

devastating interview with a scholar of fascism

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Instant classic

The Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah

2/? So now that we’ve been forced to put that on the table in our desperation, it’s available to them. This rapidly leads to legal chaos as they run wild with it.
I am, as always, still stunned that so many people wanted this.

Here’s the thing: I agree with this, but the fact that we’re talking about this is, by itself, proof that we’re in a death spiral.
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These assholes actually think they’re not nazis, that they’re good guys just doing their jobs; but that’s what nazis were! Just dudes doing their jobs! And we hanged those motherfuckers!

Fucking disgraceful

I think a good prosecutor could get Roberts convicted for treason

I Am Worried That We Will Lose the Next Big War Our leaders posture on TV while China studies how to send our ships to the bottom

A terrific cri de coeur and an important fire bell in the night by Michael Wood.

"I don’t think our generals and admirals are soft. I served under one of them—my old battalion commander in Afghanistan—who was likely in that room. He was a relentless warrior..."

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Biden Staff "No, he's going back to Delaware this weekend to relax a bit, that's why you haven't seen him."

<Tapper writes a book>

Trump Staff "The president is going to run a marathon while playing golf and fuck like a rhino all weekend, that's why you haven't seen him"

<Media nods, seems legit>

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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I’m far more concerned about the homeless people they ritualistically murder before they do it.

#NeverForget this day! 🕊️

#BringThemHome 🎗️

This is fucking vile. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

America Gets Embarrassed On American Soil Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

The Ryder Cup was a 72-hour mirror reflecting what we have become right back at us: a washed-up parody of ourselves. www.splinter.com/america-gets...

Can’t wait to see him start rubbing his teeth in front of the generals

That’s what’s been driving me nuts with this clawback and impoundment bullshit. Precedent is absolutely useless, we are flying blind, and Roberts’s claims to stare decisis deference were blatant lies to congress in his confirmation hearings.

I don’t know *all* of the research based reasons behind this but I do it this way in my solfege warm-ups.

So much of Western music relies on the “sol-mi” so that goes first. Key of D is usually where we start with kindergarten, as well.

Am I correct in assuming we’re all preparing for them to make Charlie Kirk into their venerated MLK, complete with national holiday and equal moral stature in the culture?

My god I’d forgotten all of this insanity, right down the memory hole

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

Phish fans know what that’s about

I’ve had similar thoughts

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You ever see that video of Saddam Hussein having his own version of the Night of the Long Knives with the Baathists? I think about that sometimes.