Hours each day spent to be made up to look like what?
The head of Lady Liberty on a dollar coin? That as the point of that ridiculous duck tail? Donald wanting to look like a woman? And recently Melania has been pictured as resembling a man.
Is this evidence of some deepseated gender ambivalence? How widespread is children being sexually abused in conservative circles?
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Category Archives: Down the drain
Our presumptuous public servants
Georgia arranges for newly elected public servants to be trained. Apparently, the curriculum does not emphasize the importance of deference to the public that employs them. Either that, or Mr. O’Quinn was not paying attention.
I would note that the money wasted is the least of our problems. Incompetence is wasting our time and jeopardizing lives.
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Oligarchy, patriarchy, monarchy
All are designed to assign authority on the basis of heritage, rather than performance. The U.S. corporateocracy is on shaky ground because the guardians of the natural resource base on which power rests is liable to being arrogated by the public at any time.
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McCain’s internationalism
After John McCain failed to be selected as either Vice President or President, he organized the International Republican Institute with Congressional funding. The ostensible object was to promote “democracy” around theglibe. In practice it was a program to compete with the POTUS’ exclusive responsibility for foreign affairs.
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Russian TV Rain went off the air
It is, perhaps noteworthy that this enterprise was started by women. One has to wonder to what extent male hegemony motivates Russia’s aggressive stance. Arresting babushkas carrying flowers to the Ukraine embassy seems telling.
Whatever happened to Steve Schmidt?
An essay by Samuel Benson in the Deseret News provides answers, but all the links in the post from August 2021 seem to be broken.
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A little premature, are we?
Apparently, taking the intent for the act occurs in other places as well. This was supposed to be Putin’s “Mission Accomplished” moment but got leaked too soon.
I am not sure about this translation. It was published on the web.
That Russians want to be an empire is not a secret. But, their management capabilities do not seem up to it. Nor did it register that the U.S. proponents of the “New World Order” have all been retired.
CANWFZ
Why did Putin send the Russian military to violate the containment zone around Chernobyl?
Why did Kazakstan reject Russia’s call for assistance in its invasion of Ukraine?
On “legitimate political discourse”
To understand that phrase, one has to start from the fact that the Republican party seems to have attracted a membership immersed in preconceived notions, of which racial prejudice is just one antagonism. I suppose, if they were more sophisticated, we could call them nihilists. But that would not be entirely correct because, along with their destructive tendencies, they do want something. Indeed, they are driven by a lust for power.
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Transformation
How to transform persuasion, proposition, proposal and propaganda into coercion? Lie.
It does not require a threat to coerce obedience. The lie is quite enough. Easy to turn virtue into vice with a lie.
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