You Will Anyway

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Prove him wrong

You can't.

Click to play the clip.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Looks like a cocaine rub to me

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Apparently, it's a job requirement

Also, I thought they're doing away with the Department of Education.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 06:54 am:

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Notice anything?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 11/20/2024:

Trump will not be held accountable for any of his crimes

Aside from the money he's already had to pay E Jean Carroll. And he'll be wanting that back.

He IS above the law, and we ARE going back.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 04:26 pm:

document here

Neither fear nor favor.

Today's non-surprises

Also...

Those are not tax cuts for MAGA voters. They're for super rich capitalists.

And...

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Outlaws in office

Trump is headed back to the White House, and is already running a transition that’s a master class in how to normalize corruption, immorality, and narcissism. Bill Clinton said during his 1992 campaign that his cabinet would “look like America,” and he delivered. Trump wants one that looks just like him—and by God, he is trying to deliver.

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Only to Trump could RFK Jr. look like the ideal candidate to head a department committed to “enhancing the health and well-being of all Americans” and “fostering sound, sustained advances” in medical science.

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The anti-vax delusion is part of a much larger web of conspiracies that would guide RFK Jr.’s tenure as an HHS secretary instructed by his boss to “go wild.” We have used science to create a safer world. RFK Jr. would make it more dangerous for everyone, especially frail or immunocompromised people of all ages. A 2020 study by the news organization Tortoise found that he was the No. 1 superspreader of misinformation on social media, while the Center for Countering Digital Hate included him among the Disinformation Dozen in 2021.

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THEN AGAIN, ONLY TRUMP could look at Pete Hegseth—a Fox News host who cheated on two wives and now is married to his third, who was accused of sexual assault and investigated by police, who denied the assault but paid off the accuser, who has said it’s not rape if a woman is unconscious, who says women should not have combat roles, who urged Trump to pardon or reinstate troops accused or convicted of war crimes, and was pulled from national guard duty at Joe Biden’s inauguration because a security manager had flagged him as a possible white nationalist “insider threat”—and deem him perfect to lead the Department of Defense and the nearly 3 million member U.S. military.

Only Trump could look at former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard—who spouts Kremlin propaganda, sympathizes with Vladimir Putin, calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky corrupt, and met secretly with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad—and see an ideal director of national intelligence, one who would be privy to all U.S. secrets and oversee eighteen intelligence agencies across the federal government.

Only Trump could look at former Rep. Matt Gaetz—investigated by the Justice Department for alleged sex crimes and by the House Ethics Committee in connection with allegations of “sex parties,” illicit drug use, and sex with a minor—and see an attorney general.

The Bulwark

UPDATE 11/20/2024:

Seems to be a job requirement. Also, what happened to doing away with the Department of Education?

Monday, November 18, 2024

America: a B horror movie

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Fascism on the march

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Trump purge

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

"It takes only a bit of knowledge of history to realize how dangerous it is to think that the people who run the country know what they are doing." -- Howard Zinn

"It’s not about not having something to hide; it’s about having something to lose. What we lose when we’re under observation is our humanity...Rights are inherent to our nature, they’re not granted by governments, they’re guaranteed by governments. They’re protected by governments." -- Edward Snowden

"Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause.” -- Howard Zinn

"What we have is a foreign policy which is essentially a marketing strategy for selling weapons." -- Jill Stein

"We should always remember that the danger to societies from security services is not that they will spontaneously decide to embrace [Stasi style] mustache twirling and jackboots to bear us bodily into dark places, but that the slowly shifting foundation of policy will make it such that mustaches and jackboots are discovered to prove an operational advantage toward a necessary purpose.” ~ Edward Snowden

"America: just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." ~ Mayer Rothschild

"News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising." ~ LACUNA

"What matters in journalism isn't politics, which are as universal and inescapable as breathing. What matters -- along with a fundamentally adversarial attitude toward government, without which "journalism" is simply public relations -- is integrity, transparency, evidence, coherence, and principle. These are the principles on which we should evaluate the quality of journalism, and their absence is why some journalists are so desperate to get you to focus on something else." ~ Barry Eisler

"There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack." ~ Molly Ivins

"The brain of our species is, as we know, made up largely of potassium, phosphorus, propaganda, and politics, with the result that how not to understand what should be clearer is becoming easier and easier for all of us." ~ James Thurber

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plane....When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, 'Except in wartime.'" -- George McGovern

"I’ll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one." ~ Bill Moyers

"When did hope become a political dynamic? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance on the scale of activity." ~ Rich Hall

Life, as Explained in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"

GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

GUILDENSTERN: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act.

PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.

GUILDENSTERN: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.