[liberaleffects]

The U.S. Was Just Downgraded from a 'Full' to 'Flawed Democracy'

Joining Poland, Mongolia, and Italy

[corpsecaat]

Can’t say I could argue.

[yourbigsisnissi]

Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of the progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Democrats say it should be a federal crime to attack and intimidate journalists

Trump has fueled a more hostile climate toward reporters, say advocates.

[c0nt8ct-deactivated20211225]

If we get another economic crisis in 2018, anarchists and socialists need to push their ideas out as hard as possible. A crisis now, while nationalism and fascism continue to gain traction, could be fatal if we aren’t careful.

[twice-as-many-stars]

This means setting our own agendas rather than fighting on the battlegrounds the right-wingers set. Gaining public attention. Organizing in wide partnerships. Setting up massive strikes, across trades, in solidarity. Pushing for radical politics without complicated labels. Being comprehensible, yet well-prepared and as transparent as can be - while staying safe. It means connecting class issues and identity issues, thinking them together, rather than coining them against each other. It means being there and open for everyone. It means not being afraid to fight.

[solarpunkcast]

We need to make sure we break ideas down into layman’s terms, keep the ideas of solidarity alive, and stop trying to engage conservatives and fascists on the field of “debate”. Focus on making a proper future attractive to everyone–because it can and it should be!

[void-milf]

TERRITORY TERRITORY TERRITORY should be the number one focus of anarchists and our co conspirators if we want to survive an economic crisis during an upswing of blatant fascism. Fuck PR, fuck “spreading ideas”, fuck large scale organizing. We need to build rhizomatic, replicable/modifiable but irrecuperable networks that are able to hold/protect space while developing new types of survival infrastructure for communities under seige - which is already the case but will be exacerbated in the case of a severe economic crisis.

This can look like a lot of things and will vary from place to place, but the reality is that ideas wont keep you from starving or getting shot and tbh anarchists in most places are NOT in a secure enough position to be able to even provide basic community defense, food, water or home repair for ourselves much less anyone else.

[macgregor13mathers-deactivated2]

In case you haven’t connected the news dots… Putin controls the largest oil company in Russia. He made a 500 Billion dollar deal with the CEO of Exxon Mobil. Obama put sanctions in place which stopped that deal. Russia then hacked into our government to get Trump elected. When the CIA told Congress this in September (James Comey was also in that meeting), Mitch McConnell refused to tell the American people. Mcconnell blackmailed Obama saying he would frame it as playing partisan politics during the election. Comey released the infamous no-information letter. Mitch McConnell’s wife was picked for Trump’s cabinet. The CEO of Exxon is now the Secretary of State. Wonder why our President has been so quick to dismiss the CIA’s findings?..it gets better…here are some facts: Decide for yourselves.

1) Trump owes Blackstone/ Bayrock group 560 million dollars (one of his most significant debtors and the primary reason he won’t reveal his tax returns) 2) Blackstone is owned wholly by Russian billionaires, who owe their position to Putin and have made billions from their work with the Russian government. 3) Other companies that have borrowed from Blackstone have claimed that owing money to them is like owing to the Russian mob and while you owe them, they owe you for many favors. 4) The Russian economy is badly faltering under the weight of its over-dependence on raw materials which as you know have plummeted in the last 2 years leaving the Russian economy scrambling to pay its debts. 5) Russia has an impetus to influence our election to ensure the per barrel oil prices are above $65 ( they are currently hovering around $50) 6) Russia can’t affordably get at 80% of its oil reserves and reduce its per barrel cost to compete with America at $45 or Saudi Arabia at $39. With Iranian sanctions being lifted Russia will find another inexpensive competitor increasing production and pushing Russia further down the list of suppliers. As for Iranian sanctions, the 6 countries lifting them allowing Iran to collect on the billions it is owed for pumping oil but not being paid for it. These billions Iran can only get if the Iranian nuclear deal is signed. Trump spoke of ending the contracts which would cause oil sales sanctions to be reimposed, which would make Russian oil more competitive. 7) Rex Tillerson (Trump’s Secretary of State) was the head of ExxonMobil, which is in possession of patented technology that could help Putin extract 45% more oil at a significant cost savings to Russia, boosting Putin to put money in the Russian coffers to help reconstitute its military and finally afford to mass produce the new and improved systems that it had invented before the Russian economy had slowed so much.

http://bit.ly/2sfgqvQ8) 

Putin cannot get access to these new cost-saving technologies OR outside oil field development money, due to US sanctions on Russia, because of its involvement in Ukrainian civil war. 9) Look for Trump to end sanctions on Russia and to back out of the Iranian nuclear deal, to help Russia rebuild its economy, strengthen Putin and make Tillerson and Trump even richer, thus allowing Trump to satisfy his creditors at Blackstone. 10) With Trump’s fabricated hatred of NATO and the U.N., the Russian military reconstituted, the threat to the Baltic states is real. Russia was retaking their access to the Baltic Sea from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia and threatening the shipping of millions of cubic feet of natural gas to lower Europe from Scandinavia, allowing Russia to make a good case for its oil and gas being piped into eastern Europe. Sources: Time Magazine, NY Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian UK……phew…..did you make it thru all of that?…

[saywhat-politics]

The next special election is flying under the radar. That’s just fine for Democrats.

The congressional race in Pennsylvania has drawn scant national attention but major Resistance-style organizing.

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

[mysharona1987]

[death-deafying-stuntman]

Im having trouble explaining this to myself, the fuck?

[library-bat-girl-deactivated202]

So Stormy Daniels, Aka: The Ex-Pornstar who was paid to sleep with Donald Trump in a case of Adultery literally no one was surprised by, released an Interview talking about the experience. And one of the things she mentioned was that he was watching Shark Week and was obsessed with it in the most Trump way ever. I’ll post a little exert cuz from that Interview because it contains more gold than the entirety of 45′s tacky as fuck apartment: “The strangest thing about that night — this was the best thing ever. You could see the television from the little dining room table and he was watching Shark Week and he was watching a special about the U.S.S. something and it sank and it was like the worst shark attack in history. He is obsessed with sharks. Terrified of sharks. He was like, “I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.” He was like riveted. He was like obsessed. It’s so strange, I know.” And because every intelligent person in the world has firmly taken the stance of “If I want to be able to look myself in the mirror tomorrow, I will do the opposite of everything Donald Trump does”, Everyone started donating to Shark Charities in an amazing example of collective beneficial pettiness. I’m thinking there’s a marine biologist out there right now somewhere like “Listen if we can just get him to say he hates Sharks on live TV we could repopulate the entire fucking ocean by 2019.”

[regalcinnamon]

In an amazing example of collective beneficial pettiness

😂This😂post😂is😂life😂

[berniesrevolution]

You’ve got to be kidding me!!!!

[odinsblog]

The ad begins by noting that King delivered the sermon — known as “The Drum Major Instinct” — on Feb. 4, 1968, 50 years ago Sunday.

What the Super Bowl ad doesn’t include is the part of King’s sermon in which he warns against the dangers of spending too much when buying a car and not trying to keep up with the Joneses.

“Do you ever see people buy cars that they can’t even begin to buy in terms of their income? You’ve seen people riding around in Cadillacs and Chryslers who don’t earn enough to have a good T-Model Ford,” King said in his sermon. “But it feeds a repressed ego. You know, economists tell us that your automobile should not cost more than half of your annual income. So if you make an income of $5,000, your car shouldn’t cost more than about $2,500. That’s just good economics.”

“Now the presence of this instinct explains why we are so often taken by advertisers,” King said in his sermon. “You know, those gentlemen of massive verbal persuasion. And they have a way of saying things to you that kind of gets you into buying. In order to be a man of distinction, you must drink this whiskey. In order to make your neighbors envious, you must drive this type of car. In order to be lovely to love you must wear this kind of lipstick or this kind of perfume. And you know, before you know it, you’re just buying that stuff.” 

In following a tradition of white America twisting MLKjr’s words to suit their purposes, Dodge intentionally edited out the part of King’s speech that admonished exactly what they did with this self-serving Super Bowl ad.

This is whitewashing the Civil Rights struggle on a whole new level. 

[mens-rights-activia]

The people have spoken

[advanced-procrastination]

The true hero here is the fact that there was no question of whether you’d unplug him to charge, only whether you’d plug him back in afterward

[macgregor13mathers-deactivated2]

Republican’s sure don’t have a problem spending taxpayers money when it’s for them. Heaven forbids a democrat wanting to feed some old people and children. It could be that Republicans are trying to discredit Gowdy’s verbal attacks on the bogus memo.

[liberalsarecool]

The discrimination suit was against a Navy veteran Gowdy had fired, then defamed.

Also, Gowdy also wasted $7 million of taxpayer funds and two years on Benghazi chasing nothing:

“public money spent on the 789-day investigation at $7,233,370 and rising“

[insist-on-resisting]

The ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Is How Fascists Discredit Democracy

The efforts to call into question the motivations of top officials at the FBI are creating a constitutional crisis.

Make no mistake: Trump is a fascist, just not a very competent one.

[insist-on-resisting]

Most of the fake news shared on social media is coming from right-wing conservatives, an Oxford study has found

“Extreme hard-right” conservatives shared more fake news stories on Facebook than all other political groups combined.

Who would’ve guessed?

[insist-on-resisting]

The judge Trump disparaged as ‘Mexican’ will preside over an important border wall case

The federal judge whom Donald Trump disparaged as a “Mexican” during his campaign will preside over a case brought against one of the President’s most highly touted initiatives: the US-Mexico border wall.

This is fitting.

[insist-on-resisting]

Opinion | Nunes paves Trump’s road to autocracy

The congressman’s memo cherry-picks from troves of information to feed a dangerous narrative.

Congress is supposed to be a check and balance on executive power. Instead, Republicans like Nunes are trying to turn the Trump administration into a dictatorship.

[mysharona1987]

[insist-on-resisting]

Emails Show FBI Saddened, Stunned By Comey's Firing, Contradicting Trump's Claims

"He made us better when we needed it the most," one former FBI colleague said.