I mean, this is just mustache-twirling evil. This is guy-with-a-mask-made-of-human-skin-carrying-a-machete-on-Friday-13th evil.
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Oh my, I love that song and always wondered what the heck the title meant, thank you!
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Additional information, links, good writeup, best headline…
Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone
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He Just want to avoid lamentable scenes like that.
But seriously, it must be implemented to avoid/revert changing names or removing references to personalities linked to the Confederates.
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Robert E. Lee killed more Americans than Hitler. More than Khruschev. More than King George III, Ho Chi Mihn, or Kim Il Sung. He killed more Americans than we’ve lost in every war since the American Revolution, combined. He was the largest mass murderer of Americans in our nation’s history.
Fearing President Abraham Lincoln might end slavery in America, Lee raised an army and tried to use it to end democracy in the United States; he thus committed treason in a way that exceeded even Benedict Arnold’s wildest fantasies. His war killed almost 750,000 men, women, and children, all Americans.
No American has ever betrayed or visited as much violence on this country as severely as did Robert E. Lee.
Every American, particularly those who’ve served in the military, should be outraged by Trump’s fascist performance in front of our troops. That the only senior active duty military officer who spoke to the press did so anonymously (he said, “This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution; this was shameful.”) is a damning indictment of how far away from American values we’ve let Trump drag our country.
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And some excellent out-takes…
(calls to China as well as Russian landlines don’t appear to have a limit, luckily)
(Love the throwaway ‘luckily’ there.)
In the case of roadside assistance, for example, that’s offered by a firm called Drive America, and according to Trump Mobile, the benefit is limited to $100, and is subject to filing a claim for reimbursement. Still, it could come in handy if you’re an American citizen pulled over by ICE on your way to work.
I somehow doubt that’s the kind of assistance ‘Drive America’ has in mind. 
This really only shows that Pete does not know how to spell ‘propaganda’ and does not know the difference between it and morale. In his world propaganda is the only thing that drives morale.
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Excellent post. Next do the Sacklers.
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In all fairness he doesn’t even know his own thoughts.
And, I heard Netanyahu stoking trump’s ego, it sounds like he’s egging trump on to attack Iran.
None of this ends well.
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The crazy man tactic that Nixon used kinda breaks down when the Preznit really is crazy.
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really hope some historian writes an incisive coverage of how (media) polling became weaponized in the twenty-first century. there should be an initial chapter on pollsters who fool themselves versus those which understand how polls can be easily distorted (more easily than ‘un-distorted’) for personal gain. or said in a different (slightly comatose) voice: there is information in public polling, but you’ll hardly ever be aware of it.
Trump Insists MAGA ‘HATES’ Fox News After Embarrassing Network Poll
HURT FEELINGS
He couldn’t believe what voters really think of his “miraculously perfect” border.
Updated Jun. 19 2025
President Donald Trump savaged Fox News and declared that his MAGA base hates the network after a poll showed his approval ratings tanking.
One day after claiming he had the “highest ever” approval, a new Fox poll has found that the public thinks otherwise.
According to the latest Fox News data, 54 per cent of registered voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance, and the president remains underwater on almost every major issue, including immigration, inflation, foreign policy, and the economy. …
(at least be aware that the eternal “3%” margin of error quoted in tiny tiny text, means they phoned up some very large number of people who vastly declined to take the survey yet they robo-call persisted until they collected (if they aren’t flat out lying) ~1000, who are just by virtue of taking the survey anything but typical/representative, then applied the equation which requires that they be a representative sample. @#$!!!) oh, and i ‘like’ this revealed trend to trump being “underwater” of course! but fox"news" will swap over to another poll showing the opposite whenever it suits murdoch-land
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/18/iran-war-trump-hegseth-gabbard/
“ But as Trump faces a critical decision about whether to join Israel’s military strikes against Iran’s nuclear program, perhaps the most momentous of his presidency, neither Gabbard nor Hegseth are playing starring roles as members of Trump’s inner circle of advisers, according to current and former U.S. officials and people close to the White House.
Trump instead has turned to a small group of lower-key but more experienced aides, these people said. The “Tier One” group advising on a potential U.S. strike on Iran is composed of Vice President JD Vance, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, according to an outside White House adviser, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive dynamics.”
He chose people uniquely unqualified for their jobs; then finds that out.
Not that their substitutes are any more inspiring.
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Vance was trolling bluesky on the SCotUS trans decision at the same time NSC was meeting on Iran. So either he’s not really in the group, or SOP has gotten really sloppy in NSC and it isn’t in a SCIF.
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Yeah, me too… Certainly things like the Cambridge analytica (sp?) scandal and the rise of folks like Nate Silver play a role in how things have been shaped with regards to polling lately. I’m guessing that it is related to the rise of dark money in campaign finance, among other things.
Strikes me that he sees these secretary positions as primarily public facing, hence their real work is not decision making and advisement, but propaganda to the public.
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I don’t even know if they have that expectation*, though the media are eager to talk to the Shah’s son, who tells them that’s exactly what’s going to happen (and the populace, grateful for having been bombed, will usher in a US-friendly regime).
*I get the feeling that the thinking is more: 1) Bomb Iran, 2)???, 3) Problem solved!
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It always drove me completely crazy that cynical Trump supporters (like Ben Shapiro) were including, in arguments for voting for Trump a second time, the fact that he didn’t start any new wars. Except a) the idea that a president should somehow get credit for not starting an illegal war* is nuts, and b) anyone reading about the first Trump presidency knows that Trump was constantly trying to escalate and start conflicts with other countries, including allies, but he was consistently blocked by his staff. So Trump was very clearly not, in any way, the peace candidate, and the person making the argument damn well knew it.
*I know it’s been normalized, but it’s still not constitutional, dammit.
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