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not just a vague wash rinse repeat but the exact same dumb question

Also he's OTM. It should be embarrassing to even mention Russia right now. Russia didn't militarize our cops. Russia didn't make the United States racist as fuck. Russia didn't invent American reactionaries.

it's a fair question

I don't think anyone itt is claiming any of those things?

why would treesh want to read that, it's probably very long and kind of annoying

And also no one asking him actually read the entire fucking thing either

Russia didn't militarize our cops. Russia didn't make the United States racist as fuck. Russia didn't invent American reactionaries.

Gee. And to think I wrote exactly this in this thread just about 25 posts ago. Thanks for shaming me by agreeing with me.

treesh did you ever read the mueller report? (the summaries, i mean)

― Karl Malone, Monday, May 18, 2020 12:14 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

iirc km did read it, and yes many of us read a whole lot of it

I read it. I've also read Musil. Prefer Mueller tbh.

xp - you left out the embarrassing to even mention Russia part ie "they invented agitprop! and kompromat! and"

I find the whole zero-sum game w/r/t Russia almost impossibly stupid

if you believe Russia to be a malign actor, it must also be that you are paranoid and hold them responsible for everything in the world

and mIlo it's the same dumb binary that has made you dn necessary

is everybody here really so dumb as to not understand how more than one thing can be true at a time?

your dn

i'm pretty dumb

People are actively bringing up Russia here it's not really like Biden thread whataboutism.

is everybody here really so dumb as to not understand how more than one thing can be true at a time?

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII),

Aimless did what you asked for a couple hours ago!

There's a lot of ridiculous macho posturing going on atm, so I'm taking a brief break.

the goddamn President of the United States is hiding in his bunker calling on the cops to crack more skulls

again, the quiet part out loud

cops cracking skulls is the eternal US truth. it backs up everything. Obama and Eric Holder upheld it, as Cornel West said the other night.

they invented agitprop!

nah. they didn't invent, they invented the word, which does say something useful to mention.

alfred I know, that was the proverbial everybody

There's a lot of ridiculous macho posturing going on atm, so I'm taking a brief break.

shit, gotta block some music listicles

by all means block those paragons of ridiculous macho posturing

by gum block the release of those tax returns

There's a lot of ridiculous macho posturing going on atm, so I'm taking a brief break.

you're an essential and much appreciated voice on these threads, Alfred

Thank you.

I stepped away to mix a Boulevardier and get dinner ready. I'm back.

and just in time - fuckface is finally about to say something

Ooh, I bet it's gonna be good

shit is getting testy on Pennsylvania Avenue

Cops trying to clear everyone out. Watching this on TV it’s so clear who’s escalating the violence here

Lotta F bombs on CNN right now

feel like the worm has turned - #bunkerboy is his bush-looking-out-of-a-plane-window-at-new-orleans moment

oh is he talking

I'm watching a Chantal Akerman musical

He declared the riots over. Finally.

The CNN split screen with what’s actually happening on the street is pretty striking

Ooh, he just threatened to call in the military. That'll help. Sounds like he wrote this one himself.

ceausesculastspeech.mov

Don't toy with my emotions like that.

If only.

Don Lemon bugs me at times, but he's 1000% right about how TV staged this all was; get the tear gas going just before he speaks, get the split-screen he wanted. The full Nixon.

lol goddamn commentariat. Did you think the man who said the Central Park Five were guilty would offer sympathy? You're surprised?

at least we can all declare ourselves 1807 insurrectionists now

I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers, that we dominate the streets, mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled. If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.

'DOMINATE THE STREETS', what a fucking prepubescent Call of Duty wuss.

shoot the fucker now, Corleones

Um, deploying the U.S. military inside the U.S. is still kind of a no-no, last time I checked.

Maybe someone should explain this to the President, who will doubtless realize the error of his ways and immediately revise his plans and apologize.

he would have to federalize the national guard to go over state executives, which he can and has been said to be looking at doing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act

huffy puffy 'christian' coward

medicare for all, social security birth to the earth

Trump’s script said “Once law and order is restored...” but he misread it as “one law and order” and then had to go on a riff about how we have “one beautiful law” for everyone.

— Dan Amira (@DanAmira) June 1, 2020

even when declaring martial law he can't not be a fucking dumbass for two minutes

This is the Insurrection Act he is using? Not martial law?

Xpost dammit

Insurrection Act and martial law not really the same (IA was used in 1992). But completely the wrong move and a scary escalation.

Active troops already deploying to DC.