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Just in case you were wondering if Putin had lost his ability to evolve and adjust you now have some proof:

Aka, The Deli of Civil Disobedience:

Aka, The Deli of Civil Disobedience:

Same.

doing "fascism is the practice of colonialism redirected inwards" hyper literally

"Counter insurgency operations worked so well overseas that we are going to bring them to American cities."

Opinion | Mr. President, Stop Coddling Putin

“Today, we try to deter China’s aggression with aircraft carriers and bases in the Pacific, but my guess is that what deters its president, Xi Jinping, even more is the sight of Russia being pummeled militarily and economically since it invaded Ukraine.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.

Permission was requested and granted.

Maybe it would help if we had a buddy system? Maybe set up an after school program so some of the kids can escort the Senator to safety after each work day?

Scenes from an unfree city:

Ausweiss stop at 14th and W in NW DC:

Never forget:

That’s distilled late period Andrew Tate.

Once more, with feeling: The President has no authority to federalize *anything* in D.C. without Congress, and all Congress has authorized is using the (tiny) D.C. National Guard and 30 days of use of the MPD "for federal purposes":

www.stevevladeck.com/p/172-federa...

And the reduction of victims to ash is almost certainly a reference to actual history: images.app.goo.gl/W1Mn61w8q9M9...

If correct, than this is a humiliation for Putin. He will have come to America and received nothing.

Woah...sub guy was there:

Trump Tower Moscow, Rare Earths and Geopolitical Perks: How the Kremlin Plans to Bait Trump Into a Grand Bargain - The Moscow Times As Moscow prepares for possible negotiations with Washington aimed at ending its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is seeking a far more ambitious outcome than a mere ceasefire: a global reordering o...

“We need to milk Trump as much as possible, dangling the possibility of a ceasefire like a carrot before him…”

www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/21/t...

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And often times, the effect is something lovely:

The best description as I experienced personally was that Japan has been in the year 2000 since 1980:

It will never not be funny how people who live in say...Miami...seem to be immeasurably sure they understand what is going on with crime/crime reporting in DC (i.e. summonses are only issued for low level, non-violent offenses and punishing stat manipulation is...bad?):

DC mayor hardens stance on Trump’s ‘authoritarian’ deployment of national guard – US politics live Muriel Bowser urges community members to ‘protect our autonomy… and get to the other side of this guy’ amid Trump’s intervention

DC mayor hardens stance on Trump’s ‘authoritarian’ deployment of national guard – US politics live

Fact-Checking Trump’s False and Misleading Claims About Crime in D.C. The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital.

President Trump cited a number of false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., as he announced a federal takeover of the city. Here's a fact check.

For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq.

“If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.”

National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC.

A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.

Kevin de Patoul, chief executive of crypto market maker Keyrock, says investors should be realistic about what this is. “You’re injecting a huge amount of risk into a system that, in the end, has almost nothing backing it except the continued appreciation of the asset.”

Screenshot of I Think You Should Leave episode, where the focus group man states “Oh my God, he admit it!”

Just in case you thought that it couldn't a fascist thing if it was completely farcical:

also worth noting that DC does not have a particularly high homelessness rate, that the city did a good job finding housing for people during the pandemic, and that conservatives shocked by panhandlers in crowded tourist areas apparently don't understand the basic economics of begging