Guitar of the Day

*looks across America, takes a long drag on dangling cigarette*

“Kids, we’re gonna need a Third American Republic.”

Rule: Everything Trump Touches Dies

Centuries of international jurisprudence & law to develop modern freedom of navigation on the seas that underlies global trade

*enter Trump’s small vulgar fingers

*exeunt freedom of navigation

Well, America. You elected the guy twice. What’d it cost you?

As Brits, I feel like we know what the end of power looks and feels like

Except that the US has done 60-80 years of decline in under a decade

Absolutely extraordinary how a movement designed to Make America Great Again has eviscerated American 'greatness' in just months

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So what now for the mad king's delirious attention? Onwards to Cuba?

The Declaration of Independence states early in the text:
"…all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed"

Humans are lazy & resigned to evils unless motivated otherwise

Some days I want to walk around NYC taking odd blown-out B&W photos like Natalie Merchant in the "Carnival" video,
Other days I want to keep it low brow, but rock a little know how,
like the Red Hot Chili Peppers vibing in the desert
90s music videos were aspirational meditations

The Art of War

1. Start war
2. Kill people
3. Fail to achieve strategic objectives
4. Declare victory
5. Agree ceasefire

do the tides pause in sympathy when your heart is broken?

no

the cosmos rolls on magnificent and indifferent
it is not cruelty, but a mercy
if the universe insisted on taking our concerns as
seriously as we do
it would go mad within a moment

— Alan Watts

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Trump "Truth": The alleged Statement put out by CNN World News is a FRAUD, as CNN well knows. The false Statement was linked to a Fake News site (from Nigeria) and, of course, immediately picked up by CNN, and blared out as a “legitimate” headline. The Official Statement by Iran was just released, and posted on TRUTH, below. Authorities are looking to determine whether or not a crime was committed on the issuance of the Fake CNN World Statement, or was it a sick rogue player? CNN is being ordered to immediately withdraw this Statement with full apologies for their, as usual, terrible “reporting.” Results of the investigation will be announced in the near future. President DONALD J. TRUMP

White House Rapid Response account: "ATTENTION @cnni : As @POTUS just said, Iran’s official statement is linked in his TRUTH below AND posted by the Iranian foreign minister. This alleged statement by “Iran” is a FRAUD! Correct immediately!" [Photo of CNN story citing "a statement from Iran's Supreme National Security Council report by Iranian state media."

Brendan Carr tweet: More outrageous conduct from CNN. Fake news is bad enough for the country, but pushing out a hoax headline in such a sensitive national security moment as this requires accountability. Iran put out an official statement that simply cannot be squared with the one CNN's false headline attributes to them. Time for change at CNN.

Iran's PressTV Twitter account: Supreme national security council: Iran achieved historic victory by forcing criminal US to accept its 10-point plan.

The President, White House, and FCC's Brendan Carr are calling for action -- and implying a criminal investigation -- against CNN for... accurately reporting what Iran's state media shared as a statement from Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

Who else is on that list other than ZZ Top & Van Halen?

Art of the Deal

Yeah, the fact that Trump and Iran offered very different visions of what was agreed makes me wonder what the actual content of the agreement was.

But I doubt Pakistan will clarify, because I imagine 'we both get to lie about what we agreed' is part of the agreement.

bruh. Where do you want us all to gather?

He’s losing *waaaay* more than that

Getting a way more granular understanding how this fucko managed to bankrupt a casino operation than I needed

it cant be said enough that all tech smart guys and billionaires thought this guy would be great and now the world economy is fucked we're like a week from gas rationing and their guy is threatening nukes.

Your classics lesson for the day.

this is a wild story. this level of detail cannot come without many of the principles talking to the reporters. this reads to me a whole lot like vance and rubio - especially - trying to cut their losses and throw the president under the bus. it's like something from W's second term circa 2007.

how all of this makes me feel

Remember when a delegation of congressional Republicans went to President Nixon and told him to resign?

Yeah.

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

You’re my senator and you suck bro

It is lost in the chaos of everything today but it is bug fuckin nuts that the VP is IN ANOTHER COUNTRY at a rally specifically to ensure a fellow fascist is reelected as Prime Minister.

Like

I cannot think of another time a VP POLITICALLY CAMPAIGNED FOR A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT in my lifetime

Give Trump one fine day of plain sailing weather and he can fuck up anything. Anything.

Yup. Just because the fascists are stabbing each other in the back doesn’t make the one doing the stabbing good.

Slathered with the fruit sauce of the tomato