i know he was fbi, but trump banked on the fact that he wouldn't blow up the cia's spot by uncovering the money laundering scheme. after the patriot act, don't the two agencies work together often anyway?
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
I think you’re reading logic and intentionality into Trump’s actions when there is no evidence of logic or intentionality ever driving him before.
― Boring, Maryland, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
that's what the cia bet when they tapped him as an asset--the desperate "billionaire" who would do anything to keep up his lifestyle at a time when he was completely underwater.
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
in any case, i don't think my theory requires trump to be logical and cunning. he just needs to be someone who was at one point desperate and willing to get his hands dirty. and also someone who would have already been knowledgeable about the connections between organized crime and US intelligence--you know, able to move between those worlds. and this very much was trump. his mentor was roy cohn.
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
Trump was a game show host.
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
true. alex trebek and regis philbin also declared net incomes in the negative hundreds of millions every year for decades. it's a game show thing.
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
there is *something there* which is why we were all riveted by the russia investigation. but for some reason mueller stopped short at uncovering what that was.
this is just my theory as to why that is. four years into his disastrous presidency, there is still a whole lot we just don't know about him, and it's hard for me to think that isn't in some way intentional.
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
maybe. but i don't understand why an investigation into whether trump was compromised by russia didn't include a look into who he owes money to. it seems like more than an oversight. there were some things about trump that mueller didn't want america to know about for whatever reason.
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
yeah, but i just think that would have been exposed by now.
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
that's the crux of this. for some reason, US authorities can't touch him, even when he is quite blatantly involved in crimes.
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
^ this run of posts brought to you by Reynolds Aluminum
― while my keytar gently bleeps (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Come on
― treeship., Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
Actually treeship if you were to tell me to wear foil I’d wear it after these last bunch of posts
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
i confess i'm a sucker for "cia did it" conspiracies because like 75 percent of the time there's *something* to them
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
wtf is that? xpost
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Bibi Bibiyou put my heart in moootion
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Anti-semitic pish.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
yeah, i stopped watching that segment when i saw where it was going.
i think, look--occam's razor says boring, maryland is right and he has gotten away with everything because the government never prosecutes white collar crime. i'm 90% sure something like this is the real answer.
but there will always be a part of me that wonders how it got this far. the people he has been dicking over, decade after decade, are also very rich and powerful. and no matter what, the money keeps coming in for him.
― treeship., Wednesday, 7 October 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
It's not a subtle thumbnail.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
yeah, i mean, i think that is something for the mods to remove honestly. we don't need it here.
― treeship., Wednesday, 7 October 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that was a few steps beyond "controversial." Deleted.
― mod, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.0Icm7aafJPjCan5_GaCKlQHaD4%26pid%3DApi&f=1
― Bstep, Thursday, 8 October 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
OK, right, frankly, fuck this.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 October 2020 08:57 (three years ago) link
She said: “She’s everywoman and clothes would have restricted her. Statues in historic costume look like they belong to history because of their clothes.“It’s crucial that she is ‘now’.“The whole sculpture is called ‘for Mary Wollstonecraft’ and that’s crucially important. It’s not an idea ‘of’ Mary Wollstonecraft naked… the sculpture is for now.”
“It’s crucial that she is ‘now’.
“The whole sculpture is called ‘for Mary Wollstonecraft’ and that’s crucially important. It’s not an idea ‘of’ Mary Wollstonecraft naked… the sculpture is for now.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/insulting-to-her-mary-wollstonecraft-sculpture-sparks-backlash
this is a terrible statue and maggie hambling's defence is rambling incoherent garbage.
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
wow that's crazy!
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
It could be a statue for like, anything.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
And by removing personality and clothes it removes the whole social world that MW moved in/against which conflict is the whole point idgi
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
the infantile doll at the top:
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d6e7a108000d52ca2ab3935e3ceefabd36c592c6/0_1367_3712_2227/master/3712.jpg?width=1200&height=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=d330ed89cc635f93cdbb73cca232dcb9
and the whole lump:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/154FD/production/_115339278_motg_01_ioanamarinescu.jpg
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
Oh wow
I thought the top bit was the main bit
Fuck
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
bad monument for a cool historical figure
― treeship., Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
"Any passing teenage boy is not going to think, oh, that’s an icon of feminist education. They are going to think – tits!"
Can't not do this in a Coogan voice.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
Smoking should be restricted to specific places even outdoors.
Like, I shouldn't have to breath in the smoke just because three smokers want to walk side by side down the street, blowing smoke back behind them.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
feel like an unusual amount of time and effort went into the pubes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
that's a polite way of putting it
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
The writer Caitlin Moran tweeted: “Imagine if there was a statue of a hot young naked guy ‘in tribute’ to eg Churchill. It would look mad. This, also, looks mad.”
This would be much better than any existing monument to Churchill.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
Hot Lincoln statue in LA to thread.
(xp) Particularly the naked Churchill statues.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
https://blueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/story/thumbnail/91825/f5a1be9a-6712-4796-9dd0-0ff1412746f2.png
pov about to undo his belt with my teeth
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
he looks a bit nonplussed about it
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
abraham lincoln was a thot
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Yeah the statue is infuriating. I am someone who kept an open mind about that Medusa by City Hall, but Wollstonecraft should not be depicted in the nude as it separates her from her male contemporaries. Making her “timeless” is stupid; she is relevant to us today because she was an acute observer of her world in the 18th century. You know, they don’t make statues of Kierkegaard with a backwards hat and his cock out.
― treeship., Wednesday, 11 November 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
just got an idea for a cool new statue
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
Agree that the statue is crap but Wollstonecraft is not depicted in the nude or at all.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
The nude woman is “everywoman” in theory right?
― treeship., Wednesday, 11 November 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
Even in that case, idk. Most will see it as a depiction of her. And why depict “women“ in general to memorialize Wollstonecraft in particular?
― treeship., Wednesday, 11 November 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link