caffeine-logophile.bsky.social
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It’s only a matter of time before someone targeted/snatched pulls out a gun/knife and people get wounded and/or dead.
And honestly, I think they’d be justified in fighting back. People who come from narco-states know that getting snatched=being killed, so they go into fight/flight mode.
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No fucking shit, buddy - we figured that out the first time.
What’s more embarrassing is that enough people were too stupid, willfully ignorant, or naive to think that he’d somehow magically “changed” since then, enough to vote him in a second time. They got duped and conned a second fucking time.
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Him and Smiller both.
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I do believe we already have one, since 2018 (iirc):
socialistra.org
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How can one “impersonate” a federal agent when they don’t even identify themselves as one, be it by verbal inquiry or attire/uniform?
For all we know they’re volunteers pretending to be ICE agents… which then begets: who is impersonating a fed, the impersonators or the people impersonating them?
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IYKYK:
“I am Alpharius.”
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Wondering if this crosses the threshold for libel, because if it does, Walz should drop a suit on Watters and Fox like a fucking anvil, the same way Dominion did to them.
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Much better solution - organic and all natural!
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Vance would actually be able to shut Miller down if Donny choked on a Big Mac - he’d just have to say “Im the fucking POTUS now, so gtfo.”
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Journalists who interview Trump and ask him questions he can’t/won’t answer, they should then just say “Maybe I should’ve interviewed Stephen Miller instead, the person who seems to be actually in charge of and in control of everything.”
Trump is being used by him like a cheap knock-off suit.
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This is Schrödinger-style diplomacy.
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I’m sure he planned on doing that, simply because why else would he have a tampon with him?
What an abhorrent, utterly insecure and terrified-of-the-opposite-gender man-baby piece of shit.
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This video is from the first Trump admin, but I think it makes my point clear enough.
www.google.com/search?q=vid...
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If you don’t know L.A.: Santa Monica is a VERY progressive enclave in L.A., and also where he grew up.
I think what’s happening in L.A., this extreme crackdown starting here, is part symbolic for him because he hates where he comes from, in more ways than one.
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Maybe I’m naive, or missed something, but her reaction seems genuine, as I (and most everyone who visits Hiroshima) know from experience.
So I’m left wondering: is she being sincere here? And if so, is it because of her visit to Hiroshima and her job as DNI?
Or is it something else she’s doing?
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Even if - cynic’s view - she’s doing this to cover her own ass so she doesn’t have to exist in a nuclear hellscape, to do so publicly in this way is unusual to say the least. I don’t get any sense of partisanship or politicking in this video.
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She never mentions political parties in the video, and she has access to info about global conflicts that many of us don’t. Regardless of where her loyalties are, the tone and focus of this video makes me wonder if she’s… trying to warn us about these conflicts and how they quickly get out of hand?
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When you consider that Obama is the only POTUS to ever visit Hiroshima, and how many other world leaders have not, it’s easy for figures like Putin and Trump to casually talk about dropping a nuke to solve a “problem.” So I wonder if this is her way to speak out against that kind of talk/attitude?
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All of which leads me to this question:
What is her angle, exactly? What is she trying to say or get at with this video?
We know she’s good at bullshitting (see her confirmation hearings), but I cannot detect any sort of subtext in this video. It feels/appears like an honest appeal against nukes.
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So when she talks about the casualties, the destructive capacity of nukes, the aftermath, the horror and trauma that it created, her words ring true to me - I get the impression that she was affected herself, in her own way, as I was. Her opinion seems changed (?) to a more “anti” position.
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I saw it more than 20 years ago and still it affects me, more so after seeing the destruction, its legacy, and knowing MY country did it, and that my father was also a vet from that war.
Visiting Hiroshima changed my opinion on nukes, from “maybe” to “never again.” The collateral cost is too much.
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I’ve visited Hiroshima myself. I’ve seen the artifacts in the adjacent museum - the mutated keloid scar tissue in jars, the scorched pavement where the only thing left of people is their shadows after the bomb detonated, and more - and visited the burial mound for the unknown dead.
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Okay, so here goes…
For the record, I loathe this woman. Her changing teams, her lies, her clever and better-than-others-in-this-administration ability to bullshit and distract.
That said, I’m not sure what to make of this video. I’m not sure what her angle or purpose is meant to be.
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Actually, Miller *has* thought this through, but for reasons most might not initially know. This is a case of “familiarity breeds contempt.”
He was born and raised in Santa Monica - yes, THAT Santa Monica, in L.A. - and went the SanMo HS. He was as massive an asshole then too.
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Too bad, because this country would be shit without CA.
California is the #4 largest economy in the world, beaten by Germany and China. No California? China would be in the top spot.
Also, California contributes more than any other state, 12.2%, to U.S. revenue. Next biggest is Texas, at 8.9%.
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This needs to happen again during his stupid fucking birthday parade.
Bring it to a standstill, and have every person blocking the progress be a veteran in their dress uniform who has been betrayed by this president.
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Watts riots.
Rodney King riots.
Ffs, Lakers-WINNING-the-NBA-championship riots.
L.A. Women’s March, after Trump’s 1st win.
Angelenos are always willing to demonstrate, protest, and more if we feel the need to speak up and out about whatever the issue is.
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There needs to be a place where Karoline Leavitt, Pam Bondi, and Stephen Miller are all at the same time - just so Kilmer Abrego Garcia can show up and let them see that he’s back in the U.S., even if it is for a court date.
Their heads might even explode. Who knows?
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Sorry ladies, but no.
As long as you live in a society where a certain groups of bitchy, whiny white men feel entitled to whatever they want, just by showing up, over anyone else willing to do the work, including you, this’ll always be an issue.
All because of their massive sense of insecurity.
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False equivalency Mike Johnson, you fucking dipshit.
Wearing a mask during Covid is not the same as wearing a mask when arresting someone. One is for health reasons so you don’t catch a virus and die. The other is to avoid identification by the public for being assholes.
They are not the same.
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Easy solution for NATO to “catch up” is this:
Have the nation with the most drone-use-in-the-battlefield experience teach them, and maybe even join as a member?
I’m talking about Ukraine, of course.
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It’s Kakistocracy, ver. 2.0.
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Pretty much how I feel everyday about either of them, Trump or Putin.
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This heresy should be burned.
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Where do I get one of these?
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Nah. I say give her one. Extended clip and all the fixings. So she feels overconfident and secure
It’ll be hilarious when she finally figures out every single round is a blank.
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Reading age? Don’t you mean overall mental age? I mean, ffs, he sure acts like it sometimes.
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Bold of anyone to assume this POTUS cares about anything like details, accuracy, or a faithful representation of what happened.
MAGA respect for such things is about as deep as their respect and observance of Flag Code, which is to say nearly nonexistent.
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Umm, last time I recall a government fucking around with nuclear reactors and NOT letting the scientists and techs do what they NEEDED to do for safety purposes, it was a place called CHERNOBYL.
I am 99.9% positive NOBODY in the current kakistocracy knows fuckall about how nuclear energy works.
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I think it is safe to say that most people would LOVE to have a job where they could bike to work.
It means work is close, conditions are safe for riding, the air is clean, and it’s built-in daily exercise. I mean, I know I wouldn’t mind biking to work - would you?
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I think the word you may have wanted to use there is “committed.”
But I agree either way - get him out of the White House.
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“Children will be taught to love America… to be patriots… civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding.”
This right there is the fascist tell. They won’t be taught critical thinking, problem solving, and guess who defines civic values. All with an “obey, or no $$$” threat to schools.
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Actually, I think it comes out to 3/4 of Americans are junkies. Population is around ~340 million, and she states 285 million were saved.
But the math don’t matter, because it’s all bullshit. I guarantee she gives zero fucks about fentanyl deaths unless it somehow makes her and her boss look good.
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Or y’all thought the black/asian lady laughed funny.
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This could all end so quickly and easily if Putin would just order his troops to GET THE FUCK OUT of Ukraine.
Yet, for some reason, this guy won’t ask or pressure Putin to do just that - kinda curious, huh? 🤔
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His answer sounds so lame and mealymouthed - “bleh bleh BLEH bleh bleh bleh bleh…” - because he knows he’s got nothing to stand on, the interviewer has him cold, and he’s utterly chickenshit to do otherwise.
They’re all chickenshit and they know it.
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Unfortunately, all the democratic senators who voted to confirm Rubio for his Secretary of State position are partially complicit in this shitshow, since Rubio is the fuckface who set up the deal with Bukele in the first place.
If I’m not mistaken, it was HIS idea originally.
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As many of them in uniform as well, so people can see who is opposing this nonsense.
A counter-parade of sorts, except they don’t move - they just stand at attention, blocking the way, daring Trump to show everyone watching who he *truly* is.
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It’s also the SCOTUS realizing that if they don’t draw this line here, the next step is to start doing it to citizens on the regular, which the orange god-turd has already said he wants to do.
Which could also mean them.
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Nurgle cultists also works. Quite well actually.
Nurgle is the chaos god of disease, decay, and despair in setting of Warhammer 40k.