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Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

If they need an emergency to have special powers, count on these backwards to create one

some of you may die written on a poster with shrek and knights ALT: some of you may die written on a poster with shrek and knights

Straight Farquad

On some level I am pretty sure people who go for that kind of non-accountability deserve to go to a much worse place

If there's any justice the party will fast-track her to a role worthy of her

Yup, confidently and increasingly wrong until the time for predictions is in the past; par for the course

I mean if these death cultists are in such a hurry to get themselves raptured why do they have to wreck the world on their way out the damned door? Get these guys a Jonestown cocktail, stat, so they don't get us all killed while they 3-stooge the doorway to heaven

Could we please stop electing death-cultists to leadership positions?

Oh, how adorable. He thinks he's the magical source of wealth in the economy instead of being the beneficiary of other people's productivity

Pretty much par for US foreign policy, just way faster: it took the US years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban after all

so I'm just wondering why cops are assaulting people carrying makeshift shields, really

Spoken like a scion of wealth who has never had to budget for food

Folks, this tantrum is about one thing only: the Dept of War leadership has an obstacle to its program in the form of troops willing to possibly disobey illegal orders and they're big mad they can't get a way to cut that safeguard out of the system

LOL where I come from if you go to a planned snowball fight you should expect to... *gasp* get SNOWBALLS THROWN AT YOU

I mean really, what were they expecting, and if it wasn't exactly this, why not?

It's been done, but it takes a lot of time and money and the result is a vessel all but certain to ride miserably in open water.

it's worth noting that the economic stagflation of the 70s was basically caused by the war machine sucking up most of the Steel in the US market, which hurt the US auto and manufacturing sectors and led to...

Reaganomics, neoliberalism and an end to Keynes and the New Deal

So we've reached the absurd point in the story arc when the court says he can't unilaterally issue tariffs and his response to that is to say nuh-uh and proclaim that he is issuing new tariffs

and nothing happens

looks like a dare

This dude @rokhanna.bsky.social is out here making sense

If you consider private health insurance and child care costs to be a tax, (effectively they function as one) their taxes aren't really that high and ours aren't low at all

When I analyzed what I paid for child care, health care, schooling for my kids, and for my retirement all these years, it turns out I paid more to be able to live like a Dane than a typical Dane pays to live like a Dane

How many vacant homes are there in the US? | USAFacts Over 15 million American homes — approximately 10% of the country’s housing inventory — were vacant in 2024.

For the 'build baby build' people on housing: consider, if you will, there's roughly 46 vacant homes for every homeless person in the USA and our housing market is failing spectacularly to allocate homes to their highest utility

usafacts.org/articles/how...

Call me naïve but there should be greater consequences when people in a position of trust or authority use it in violation of law or duty. Zero immunity for this, there should be charges 100% of the time when this sort of thing occurs

Flip that: how can anybody still believe this guy?

Let it burn down then

it's the goddamned Vader nebula

“She’s not from here.”

Meme of US coups and actions against Guatemala, Vietnam, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela with text: "Why would socialism do this?" The point: these were blamed on socialism but are past and current US policy to prevent socialism from interfering with US corporate activity in these countries

Protest sign from 2010 with text: REVOLUTION!! STOP SOCIALISM STOP SPENDING STOP LYING image source: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/03/07/what-is-socialism-socialist

I don't think the *idea* of socialism is unpopular, but the *branding* certainly is. I think that's on cold-war propaganda

The fun part: the downsides we're warned about "if socialism" are here under capitalism and always have been- and some folks think it's because the status quo is socialist

That which can be destroyed by the truth deserves to be destroyed by it