man those world war guys just can't shut up about sigfried sassoon, OKAY, we GET IT, he was in a WAR and he wrote POEMS jesus
― j., Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
good memoirs and entertaining novels as well.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
TS: Sassoon vs. Zazous.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
so the senate majority is moving forward with an investigation of the democratic nominee's son
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/senate-committee-authorizes-subpoena-in-hunter-biden-probe-270741
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
“If there’s nothing there, we’ll find out there’s nothing there. But if there’s something there, the American people need to know that.”
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:41 (four years ago) link
Richard Evans’s Third Reich quadrilogy is a very good and readable nuts and bolts history of the Nazis. The first book is all about 1919-1933.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 21 May 2020 04:51 (four years ago) link
Mona Charon using a pull quote that repudiates Steve King isn’t something I ever expected to see
― (so serious) (DJP), Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
Yes.
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
but he's too dumb to be effective at it so no worries!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Friday, 29 May 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
yeah, absolutely. it drives me insane
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 May 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
Donald Trump is not a Fascist, a truth so obvious as to be worth the clusterfuck that's about to ensue― Coombesbat 18 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:42 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Coombesbat 18 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:42 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
are we ready to walk this one back yet
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link
It's all about whether he's a fascist in his heart.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
dude I fuckin hate to bring this up but I feel like there's a connection between Trump speaking with Putin and declaring martial law on the same day
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 03:29 (four years ago) link
and by the way bringing up the 2nd Amendment during his speech today really felt like "you can shoot anyone you think is ANTIFA, wink wink"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link
“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”At the same meeting, Xi also defended China’s construction of camps housing as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang — and Trump signaled his approval. “According to our interpreter,” Bolton writes, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”
At the same meeting, Xi also defended China’s construction of camps housing as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang — and Trump signaled his approval. “According to our interpreter,” Bolton writes, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”
What Is Fascism And Is Donald Trump A Fascist
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/
Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off.
― rob, Friday, 17 July 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
Official White House response to @Fahrenthold’s excellent reporting about the president getting public money spent at his private business: https://t.co/uhD9V8PrDi pic.twitter.com/CkXmD6eogq— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 27, 2020
― maura, Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
“‘dossier’”
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
false David Fahrenthold and others stories
― contorted filbert (harbl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Did False David Fahrenthold pee on anyone or ask to be peed on? If not, I'm not interested.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
lol I am reminded of carter page and his attempts to make “dodge dossier” happen
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
“Dodgy dossier”
pass the cur's dossier
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
this tom cotton speech is something else. this is the kind of thing that trump enabled. cotton's speech, his language, the entire concept of his speech ( would have been a seismic oddity just 4 years ago
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 28 August 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
"...his disciplined work ethic" (Guiliani).
― clemenza, Friday, 28 August 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
this is the first time i've tuned in for more than 5 minutes straight. i'm sure they're ramping it up for the final night, but this is creepy as fuck. the "almighty god" references, god left and right, from multiple speakers in a row, paired with nods to loyalty, to faith, to fighting against those who would destroy it...with god on their side. the speaker just now just yelled "Hallelujah!" while raising her voice and her arms in the air. she is apparently someone who was freed from prison under trump's incarceration reforms, or something. holy shit
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 28 August 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
and at the same time, the inbetween-speech video they're playing just went out of its way to promote
OPERATION WARP SPEED
looooool? who falls for this? jeeeeezus
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 28 August 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
I tuned in for like two minutes and dude can barely read. And then he has to do this dramatic swing to get his body to face the other direction to struggle to read from the other prompter.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
He looks like shit, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
He's gripping that podium like he's afraid a gust of wind will blow him over.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Thursday, August 27, 2020 9:03 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think you know
― frogbs, Friday, 28 August 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
if I still drank I’d totally watch this shit
― brimstead, Friday, 28 August 2020 03:31 (three years ago) link
He's still going! It's 11:30 in DC!
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 August 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
maybe he'll catch pneumonia
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Friday, 28 August 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
It is far too warm here for that to happen tonight.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 28 August 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
I accidentally heard the end of this on the radio and his delivery was so fkn flat, he sounded exhausted and barely able to speak, let alone rouse rabble - at least ad*lf h*tl*r had a way with insane oration - how can people fall for this limp dick fascism?
reflecting on this, I suppose like many things it would be worse if he/they were good at it
― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, 28 August 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
My wife and I had a chat the other morning about what if we had real state-run media in this country and determined that Bush/Cheney would have used such an instrument to much more terrible effect; Trump would have just wrecked it. He’s bad at everything.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 28 August 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
but really, how different is fox news from state-run media? that's not just a slogan, i think that's true. even state-run media occasionally runs quasi-critical coverage, and fox barely even bothers to do that, unless forced to do so
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 28 August 2020 04:46 (three years ago) link
Fox complained about the administration for eight straight years iirc
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 28 August 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
while also running a 2-3 hour segment personally dedicated to trump (fucker>hannity) every evening
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Friday, 28 August 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
I mean I get your point. And obviously multiple admins have all had the entire media playing their tunes re: the GWOT for many years
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 28 August 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
& “real” state media usually includes explicit collusion between the state media organization(s) the broadcaster, newspaper, etc) and the regulator(s) who control access to bandwidth. Another thing that a more competent admin could really use for evil but this one would probably just fuck up. My whole point being to emphasize that the Trump/Pence inability to even execute rousing authoritarian oratory effectively is just another symptom of how incompetent this entire shitshow has been from the get-go.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 28 August 2020 05:11 (three years ago) link
I've said it a few times, but having just read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" the conclusion I came to pretty early on is that for all their uncanny similarities, Adolph was just so much better at it than Asshole. To borrow a joke I saw online yesterday, Hitler was pretty bad, but in the end he *did* kill Hitler. That's how good he was.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
Apparently even Jim Gaffigan went ham after last night? And he's as MOR as it gets.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
You know Trump just creates enemies. You know you can't trust him. You know he been incompetent during this crisis. You know all those people didn't need to die. Trump talks about the Space Program and you can't safely go to a movie. Wake up— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020
to those of you who think Im destroying my career wake up. if trump gets elected, the economy will never come back.— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
Etc.
Truth Hot Pocket
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Friday, 28 August 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
Gaffigan goes off...never seen him like this. pic.twitter.com/gdurze0b32— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 28, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgfeXifU8Acnli3?format=jpg&name=large
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link