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PhilipTheBucket

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    [Video clip] Tech CEOs at the White House - One-upping each other in Ass-kissing

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  • Tell me I'm crazy, are not Safra Catz and Satya Nadella naturalized citizens? Subject to arbitrarily getting fucked up any time any of them steps on the wrong tail? Neither was born in the US. Catz is presumably safe, because she's white Israeli, but...

    What the Jesus Christ man

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  • CBS Abruptly Changes Editing Rules After Attacks From Administration

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  • every single company and institution, especially the ones that the people rely on, will literally do whatever the government wants without even second guessing it all in an effort to save their own ass

    In some authoritarian structures, this is true. At least in the short run. In Russia, if you play ball with the government, you'll be largely protected against hostile forces in the crooked and dangerous melee of existing day-to-day in business or media, because you're on the side of the boss.

    In Trump's structure, there is absolutely no safety in any direction. And there is doubly none for establishment media. CBS is not going to get a goddamned thing in exchange for their obedience. They'll still be the enemy, and they're still going to get all fucked up (maybe physically in a real sense) any time it suits the mad king's urges. I think they're just doing it because (ironically enough) they don't really have a grasp of what is going on, or maybe are just petrified and don't know what to do and so they're just clinging to the hope that obeying will keep them safe. But it won't. It doesn't change the equation in the slightest. Actually, if you have big money and institutional backing, fighting back like Harvard or Chicago is probably safer, honestly.

  • Venice Pickpockets Sue Citizen Watchdogs

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  • One of the very few times recently I have felt proud of my country was reading stories about pickpockets at the Paris Olympics, encountering the new phenomenon of Americans who when they get pickpocketed would respond by physically assaulting the pickpockets and taking back their stuff.

    "Le merde! This is forbidden! Unfair!" lol

  • McConnell: ‘There’s certain similarities right now to the ‘30s’

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  • Yeah, too right. It's a little surprising to hear someone in his position talking about it, it means they're waking up, which I guess is a good thing?

    Oh, to the United States in the 1930s? Fuckin' what lol. The tariffs are hardly the most important things going on right now. Well, hopefully McConnell lives long enough to get "night of the long knives"ed.

  • MTG warns Epstein clients she’ll ‘say every damn name’ on House floor as she tells sex abuse victims, ‘Give me a list’

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  • Yeah. Broadly speaking, the idea of not funding Ukraine's defense might just be some anti-war populism brainrot, but stuff like "Nazis in Ukraine" and talking about Zelensky as a dictator but being super gung-ho about Assad, things like that, start to cast it in a little bit of a different light.

    Full disclosure, I got randomly curious and looked up what she thinks about Maduro, and she's 100% opposed to the Russia point of view: https://www.usasocialite.com/marjorie-taylor-controversial-comments/ ... so who knows, maybe I am wrong.

  • MTG warns Epstein clients she’ll ‘say every damn name’ on House floor as she tells sex abuse victims, ‘Give me a list’

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  • She's performatively anti-war, but if you look a little more closely you can see that her "anti-war" always lines up with Russia's "anti-war." She was very upset that Trump wanted to put new sanctions on Russia if a peace deal wasn't reached, for example. An anti-war person would be in favor of going to bat for peace, right?

    She also was pretty much the only person who voted against mourning the victims of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Why? Because (in my opinion) the resolution also had bad things to say about Russia's guy in Syria.

    She's willing to break with Trump, when she gets time amid her busy schedule of various nutty things that her trailer-park schizophrenia has convinced her need to be talked about. When has she ever broken with Russia? (By taking a stand against their aggression in Ukraine for example, the same way she takes a stand against Israel or the US or one particular side in the Syrian civil war or these other geopolitical things she occasionally talks about.)

  • MTG warns Epstein clients she’ll ‘say every damn name’ on House floor as she tells sex abuse victims, ‘Give me a list’

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  • I think that's part of the point.

    Trump got distracted, as he does, and has stopped doing Putin's bidding as far as Ukraine.

    Putin doesn't like that, and has reached out to some of his other assets in US government, of which MTG is one. She got vocal about us needing to not strike Iran, which was wildly out of character for her (she generally doesn't give a shit about the world outside of her weird little fantasy version of it, definitely not about geopolitics).

    If she's now making noise about Epstein, in a way that breaks from Trump, then I think the reason is that Russia is telling her to, because they think Trump needs to be punished on this issue.

    I have no idea, but that's what I think is going on. Trump has lost sight of rule number one in American politics: You dance with them as brung you.

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    Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

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  • I saw an ad on YouTube for what a good job ICE is doing not that long ago. Kristi Noem was in it.

    More disturbingly, I've noticed a little scattering of those "police bodycam raw video" channels starting to play up when the criminal involved is an immigrant, what their status was, how ICE was involved, and so on. There's clearly something at work that's a little more subtle and sinister than just paid advertising.

  • Jeanine Pirro Is Getting Embarrassed In Federal Court

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  • How do you think a firefight between ICE and the National Guard would go?

    That's more my point. ICE can fuck up plenty of the helpless, and that might include you and me soon enough. But my point is that co-opting the forces that actually know what they're doing is often a good accompaniment to that idea, and they're not even making vague attempts at doing anything like that, they are doing the opposite.

  • Jeanine Pirro Is Getting Embarrassed In Federal Court

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  • Count your lucky, lucky, lucky stars that these people are such idiots.

    It doesn't mean they are not dangerous. The Nazis were exactly the same type of hilarious buffoons, not good at anything, until all of a sudden it wasn't funny anymore and the nightmare came to life, neverending. And the Trump people are doing a pretty good job speedrunning getting the camps up and running, they've already started on the undesirables and it's working, and they're building a huge number more as we speak.

    But still, Jesus Christ. They could have had their pick of conservative sociopath lawyers hand-picked by Peter Thiel to whip shape into the DOJ and turn it on all the domestic opposition. They could have doubled military pay instantly, and had heartwarming rallies where they assured all the troops and all the cops that finally, with us in charge, you have someone on your side in government. It would have locked in their victory like a fucking armbar. Instead, they're taking all these people whose support and agreement is vital to this thing really coming off without a hitch, and putting them into these moronic and hostile situations, literally every chance they get.

    Think about it: You're a career prosecutor, you've been busting your ass for decades in a high-stakes profession, and you're successful at it. And then one day you walk in and your boss is Jeanine Pirro and she's going to be taking over going forward.

    Just think of how the interactions with her go in the workplace. Think of watching her fuck up important things, left and right, and that just being your new reality.

    Jesus Christ man. We got lucky, a little bit, that it came in this form when it came. Their sheer moronitude has to be some kind of weakness.

  • A wise guide

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  • My parents owned a cat who loved to go on walks with them, but would complain loudly if the walk was too long, and demand to return to the house when she was done walking. It was such a problem that they started shutting the cat in the house when they wanted to walk, and so she would hide outside and follow them secretly until they were too far along with the walk to bring her back to the house and continue without her, and then trot up and join them on the walk. Then shortly she would complain that the walk was too long and she wanted to go back now.

    We love her

  • Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

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  • It's not that serious a mystery.

    If you stick people in tents in the desert, they tend to die. And, not a lot of people want to be involved with something like that, and so they're making the point by giving absurd amounts of money to anyone who is willing to be involved. Same as the high salaries for ICE recruits.

  • Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

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  • They can do whatever they want. On the other hand, the people of the country can throw things other than sandwiches.

    People tend to get confused, even when they are familiar with all these founding documents and principles (which the current government is not). They start to think there are "rules" and they get to say what's allowed, and they can punish people who do what's not allowed, but it doesn't go the other way, because that's not allowed and they're in charge. That's not reality. Reality is, we're all just on this planet bebopping around, and if someone is in a "government" role, it behooves them to make sure the people "under" them agree with the idea of them being in charge. Because no one has a monopoly on violence or vigor.

    Even the top leaders of the USSR (starting with Kruschev) had to figure this out: He made a mostly unspoken deal with the other leaders that he wouldn't try to kill them for being potential threats, and in return they wouldn't kill him to take him out of power and replace him. And what do you know, it worked! It's better that way. The US up until now has had a little more sophisticated version, extending beyond the inner circle of leadership, but it sounds like Trump is hankering for an earlier era without really being aware of its perils.

  • Dems' Messaging Nerds Urged Party Not to Talk About Trump's Military Takeover

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  • Yeah. I don't really know politics well enough to know how realistic it is. I do know that most of them exist in a weird white-collar corruption ecosystem which really doesn't give a shit about parties D or R, working people, America's standing in the world and success or failure, any of that stuff. They just work for who pays them, and for the most part, who pays them is the rich sociopaths who are completely fine with putting all the poors in camps.

    I feel like a certain amount of it is also deliberate partisan sabotage by people who care specifically about R instead of D, but I think mostly it's just the bipartisan Washington consensus that Bernie Sanders is a loony old guy and Hilary Clinton / George W / Mitt Romney / Hakeem Jeffries / all those indistinguishable dickheads are the future of this country, because they're going to continue to enable all of "us" to get filthy rich without really having to work for it.

  • Dems' Messaging Nerds Urged Party Not to Talk About Trump's Military Takeover

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  • And when he's floating in a barge off Gitmo, he'll be very mad that it was someone else's fault. This isn't supposed to happen to people like him, he was doing everything professional and right.

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  • Seriously. You'd think that after 2016 when the signal stabilized and people who ignored this messaging were consistently wildly popular in elections, and people who listened to it got beat like a rented mule year after year, they'd see the pattern. There aren't a lot of fields of big league human endeavor where you can be this stupidly unsuccessful for this long and people still take you seriously and keep paying you vast sums of money to learn your wisdom.

    I suspect there's a certain amount of deliberate sabotage involved. How much of it is that, and how much is pure homegrown white-collar stupidity, it's impossible to say, although I would speculate they're both heavily involved.

  • Department of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump says

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  • There's a pretty good book called "Playing With Fire" about the politics of the late 60s and the events of the time. I had to stop reading it, it's too sad. Bobby Kennedy talking to the crowd after MLK was shot, not knowing that he was going to be dead the same way a short time later, just fucked me up, I put it down.

  • Department of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump says

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  • I 100% believe that JFK was killed because he was serious about trying to bring some humanity to the US government.