Well shit. That’s why we haven’t heard from Medhurst in a while. They nabbed him (a second time) in Austria, and have stolen all his equipment and data and kept legal cases open against him in both countries to silence his journalism.
The Democrats know this too. They just underestimate how much Trump hates them and won’t listen to them simply because of their colors. LOL. So they suck up and lick the boot (underneath the farce of rhetoric), while he ignores them (at best).
This whole thing is a gigantic display of that observation about how conservatism boils down to having an in-group protected but not bound by the law, and an out-group bound but not protected by the law. Laws are for poor people, and Trump is not an exception.
This is just fundamentally what laws are in the first place, TBH. It’s not just conservatism, but liberalism in general. If you have a state, you have this kind of authoritarianism and repression. It’s just a matter of how extreme and obvious it’s gotten (
). Even MLs want to dissolve the state eventually. The major divide between the branches of lefism is just whether or not you can do some good shit before this kind of nonsense catches up with you.
Love how the powers that be just jumped immediately to assuming it was some kind of cyberattack. Obviously without any real evidence. Very healthy society.
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Also, descriptions of pretty horrific war crimes.
Crazy world where Fucker Tarlson is doing better journalism than 99% of liberal Western media. 
It’s a start. But that leaves 62% of people who are delusional as fuck. 
Eh. I mean, it’s Trump. Hopefully he doesn’t get too inspired by what he sees as a power move and decide to keep juicing the meat grinder.
BreakThrough News interviewing someone from Electronic Intefada and giving pretty positive coverage of Ansar Allah and their resistance to U.S. imperial violence. Probably not much (or anything) new to folks here about the actual facts of the war, but still a pretty good summary. And maybe a good resource to point your leftist and left-curious friends, family, and associates to about it, if their primary exposure is mainstream “news”.
Death panel. Only literally this time. And it’s privatized. Palantir is not just a defense and marketing surveillance company; it’s in healthcare, insurance, finance, your taxes, etc.
Chris Hedges interviews Norman Finkelstein. The Fink is right about a lot of stuff, I think. Such as Israel accelerating not because Trump "gave him the green light’, but simply because Trump is taking the media spotlight constantly, and Israel knows very well how to take advantage of that. And, unfortunately, that the resistance (nor anybody else) probably doesn’t stand much of a chance of keeping the zionists from “finishing the job”.
Unfortunately the Fink also shows his brainworms and blames “wokeness” for a lot of the attack on academic freedom. Hedges doesn’t really challenge him on that, but does kind of shunt the conversation away from it. Probably still worth watching/listening to.
I’m not sure it’ll ever be possible to characterize the Catholic Church as anti-colonialist. Ugh.
But it makes sense to acknowledge what this one pope at least said about this one genocide. Probably good…diplomacy.
Somebody tweet at Trump that Zelensky is making a fool of him. Let’s see if he does a Trump or stays a Biden.
The plan is also very impractical to say the least. For example, Venezuelan crude reportedly gets shipped to Malaysia, rebranded and sent to China. Who gets slapped with tariffs in this case? And also how do you even prove it? Or maybe that’s besides the point.
Yes, it’s beside the point. Trying to argue with the cop that he doesn’t know the law. SMH.
He doesn’t care. The law is just an excuse to do what he wants to do. He doesn’t have to be consistent. He doesn’t have to make sense. All he has to do is distract you with the pretense that there’s some kind of rationale behind his actions.
Literally the whole basis for the liberal legal system. The rules are not for those who make/enforce them. They’re for the dupes; the suckers.
LMFAO. Is that executive’s reply with the video of Brace telling some reactionary that they’re ugly in order to do deflection/security for pro-palestine activists supposed to be some kind of gotcha or effective rebuke?
Trump to Zelensky: “You stupid, ungrateful upstart…!” Immediately follows his extradition plan.
I mean, just about right after it happened there was a video posted by the “Botsman Boys” about how they were shooting anyone on the streets who didn’t show proper nationalist fervor. Both of these videos have, of course, been since removed by YouTube. But I’ll post the links and the bookmark titles I had for them from pre-removal, just in case someone can find some kind of archive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dt0plkSsf4)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM9nMvIyT5c)