Sons of Ares

Δεν είμαστε τα παιδιά της ειρήνης, αλλά τα παιδιά του πολέμου. Είμαστε οι υιοί του Άρη.

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Don’t Bother Me

The Internets ask: How does the force of public opinion reach the necessary majority-out-loud to cause Congress to take action? You have to do the one thing the public refuses to do: flood the National Mall/Capitol Hill in large numbers that won't go home. The public is relying on Other People to do all the hard work (i.e., Democratic leadership). You can't be bothered, you can't be perturbed. Unless of course, you're one of the million people who rushed to sign a petition to re-do the last season of "Game of Thrones." Or are now signing a petition to keep the showrunners from having to do anything with "Star Wars." THEN you're moved to action. You have the concentration camps. You have a number of dead children who were in those camps. You have border patrol agents openly wishing they could shoot people on sight. You have laws deliberately made to exclude a whole group of people (LGBT) from legal protections, kinda like another group of people who were the object of such laws in a well-known European country not even 100 years ago. But we don't see anyone out there. We don't see any protests whatsoever. But we do see a lot of social media handwringing that is often mistaken for action. The American public likes moving goal posts. First it was the Mueller Report*. Then it was Nancy Pelosi. Now it's the 2020 election. Anything other than movement that goes outside the house. Good thing this generation wasn't around in Montgomery, AL, all those years ago, to insist that a letter-writing campaign was the way to get things done instead of an actual boycott. Black people would still be at the back of the bus. (*And the Mueller Report hasn't even been read by the vast majority of Americans, particularly among liberals and Democratic supporters who like to tout how smart they are. Why? It's too long. In a strange twist, people want a simple three line PowerPoint slide, kinda like how Imbecile-1 can understand things.)

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A Quick Question

Do we have a running tally of what the first woman presidential candidate was up against? I’ve got: the GOP, EmoProgs, a sizeable part of her own party, Russia, the FBI, 52% of white women, SaudiIsraelia, the NY Times and other assorted Media Whores.

That she still won the popular vote by 3 million remains remarkable, given all of these bad actors.

Speaking of which, anyone ever interview any of those 306 human dildos of the Electoral College? Yeah, let’s do a “Where are They Now and Are You Fucking Happy, Idiots?” segment somewhere.

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A Little Observation

Maybe it’s just us, but we find it rather curious that when presented with actual threats to the Constitution, the 3 Percenters and other self-described “strict constitutionalists” seem awfully quiet.

Hmmm, we’re beginning think they were always full of shit about their professed love for the rule of law and such.

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More War!

Well, it's been about 14 years since the cakewalk of our Iraqi Expedition. It's time for another easy victory! And really, with so many coal miners' sons willing to make the sacrifice (that we don't need to question at all because that would be inappropriate) as part of the vast MAGA Army (well, on Twitter at least), they'll all be feasting and drinking libtard tears when North Korea becomes the 51st state!

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More Wisdom from the Internets

If you wonder what Fascism looks like in practice, this is Fascism. A governmental system led by a strong leader demanding complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

But remember, the Republicans are all about *small government.* And remember how many times they heroically swatted down evil tyrant Barack Obama when he threatened business leaders on a daily basis.

Oh wait, he never did.

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This Should Settle It

”Nevada law does not require firearms owners to have licenses, register their weapons, or limits the number of firearms an individual posses. Automatic assault weapons and machine guns are also legal in the state as long as they are registered and are possessed in adherence to federal law, according to the National Rifle Association. Nevada does not prohibit the transfer or possession of assault weapons, 50 caliber rifles or large capacity ammunition magazines. Local law enforcement issues concealed handgun licenses. Open carry is legal without a permit.” Well, there you go. Nothing to see here. Better 50 (or is it 60?) dead people than one person deprived of an automatic assault rifle. Source: http://www.newsweek.com/las-vegas-gun-laws-open-carry-concealed-weapon-machine-guns-all-legal-nevada-675310

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Wisdom from the Internets

And this is why he's not just some irrelevant buffoon figurehead spouting nonsense and throwing toddler tantrums from the top while the adults get on with the job of doing their jobs. This is how he poisons the entire system. It's the acquiescence of the adults to the seeming demands of expediency, the decision to subordinate their own dignity and integrity as a necessary cost of continuing to be able to do the important work they have to do. It's a slow motion toxification of the entire polity created by the sum of all of the decisions, made one at a time, to become enablers and participants in his revenge-seeking and petulance, his need for adulation and approval and fawning subservience, because it's the only way to keep the empire from falling apart while the Mad Emperor raves. From their own perspective, it can look noble to them, a personal sacrifice of their own honor and integrity offered up to save the nation in the certain knowledge that it will be neither acknowledged nor appreciated either by the nation or the Mad Emperor. And all of those decisions drip down, one by one, down to the bottom. People in EPA making day by day decisions on how much of their actual jobs they can get away with doing and how much of the policies subverting the agency's mission they can passively resist. People in the military having the all-important principle of subordination to civilian authority, a central part of their creed beaten into the officer corps of all of the services in the wake of all the loose and dangerous talk of the need for dictatorship in McClellen's headquarters and around the campfires of the Army of the Potomac, turned against the nation they are supposed to serve. And humans being humans, displacement is inevitable. Humans being humans, in many cases the resentment created by the necessity of becoming complicit in Trump's malignancy will be turned outward, against those they are supposed to serve and against those Trump deems the enemy. That's what we're seeing here, in this supposedly competent and honorable man lashing out at the mayor of a city facing cholera and starvation for not being a team player. That's how it works for a lot of people. Recall how it turned out that it the on-air presence of a woman on Fox was an infallible indicator of whether they'd been among his victims, how it was always the ones who whose faces were constantly contorted out of all semblance of attractiveness by rage and disgust as they heaped obloquy on Others. This the poison that drips from the Oval Office through the entire government of the United States in ever more concentrated form. People being poisoned by it with the best possible intentions and, indeed, with no good or even better alternative. Even if he gone by the end of the month, we'll never really be rid of him, because he's turning the entire executive branch into a Superfund site and driven most toxic third of the electorate beyond any hope of sanity.

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Everything is Failing

The largest concentration of incompetent, unqualified and malevolent people running the U.S. government is perhaps the most notable cast of villains since the days of the Third Reich. The entire executive branch is riddled with this cancer: seriously damaged individuals who know nothing about their departments other than they they hate them and wish for them to go away. From unqualified Betsy Devos for education, terminally stupid Rick Perry as Secretary of the Interior, befuddled, incompetent Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State to willfully spiteful Tom Price as , they’re all there, crippling our government and staining formerly reputable parts of the federal government. Everything is failing.

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Fundamentally Pathetic

But that third no vote is proving stubbornly elusive—despite the fact that in revising the bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell largely moved to appeal to his most right-wing senators, throwing moderates who had promised to protect Medicaid and people with pre-existing conditions under the bus.

This is almost maddening. No, wait, it’s completely maddening to know that we have a group of people who are so cowardly and so goddamned stupid as to dither and dither and dither.

The choices that you have been presented, morans, are simple: kill your son or your daughter. Which is it?

Yet these idiots are so mind-numblingly forsaken, they refuse to say, “Neither.” How is there any mystery to deal with a poison pill?

God, this is all just so pathetic. The GOP just cannot govern.

Source: O’care Repeal Bill Gives Moderates Nowhere To Hide

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We often imagine how it would be these feckless Arab leaders were as interested in stopping Bashar al-Assad in Syria as some tiny country in the Gulf. Priorities.

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Chumps Gonna Chump

This chump in this interview doesn't want a handout, but he expects the government to pay for his Black Lung disease? Pathetic.

You know who also talks like this chump? Bigfoot nuts and UFO fanatics. They say the exact same things.

This chump probably also mocks groups of people that he thinks are asking for special right...as he's asking for special rights.

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Wisdom from the Internets

We need to be clear here: this is not tax reform. It's a tax cut package. Tax reform would get rid of loopholes; tax reform would penalize companies that do corporate inversion to avoid taxes Trump has already signed an EO which would make it easier for companies to get away with corporate inversion; tax reform would overhaul the tax code; tax reform would penalize billionaires who hide billions in offshore accounts; tax reform would streamline tax filing. THIS PLAN IS NOT TAX REFORM. So, please, let's all (including the author of this article) stop calling this plan tax reform and call it what it really is: a cash grab by the wealthy and big corporations.

Source: Talking Points Memo

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“One Asshole Away”

Moreover, the ECHELON campaign lacked much detail. NSA counterintelligence assessed that Moscow wasn’t going to stop its efforts to smear Western SIGINT, and that if the Russians ever got their hands on top-secret files to bolster their propaganda, we’d have a big problem on our hands. We were just “one asshole away” from disaster, as I stated more than 15 years ago inside NSA—to deaf ears.

That asshole showed up, as he was bound to eventually, and his name was Edward Snowden.

Source: WH Changes Its Tune on Ed Snowden, Moscow’s Star Defector

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A Definition

"We’re oppressive. We’re exploitative. We’re sexist, racist, classist. We deify horrible frat-boy brogrammer assholes.."

Yes, Tech Crunch, that description of tech guys pretty much is correct. Throw in barely patriotic and never helping your country when it's under sustained attack (Russia), and the definition is complete.

Plus, if you take a look at one of their staffers who is always prominently featured on their site main page, Khaled Hamze, you can easily throw in out-of-shape and unkempt as well.

Source

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Republican Men

>What is wrong with the Republicans that they are not rushing to take him out on even the smallest technicality? How is it there is not a single hero out of all the Republicans in the Senate and House? Simply put: because they are evil. They truly are: they are evil people. There's no other explanation for their malefeasance and malignancy. But most telling is how afraid they are. Congressmen (emphasis on the men) are fundamentally weak, bordering on cowardly. This is one of the reasons why they (superficially) adore the military, because they get caught up in trappings of what they think is manhood and toughness. Refer to women as badly as they can and as often as they can, and it completes their sense of manliness. But they're cowardly by nature and timid. This little obsequious prick Nuñez is a perfect example of the modern Republican man: a hapless fuck.

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Missing a Bigger Point

Take a look at this TechCrunch summary intro:

Tech may grab headlines for its misogyny and racial biases, but when it comes to job satisfaction, professional women still rank it as the best industry to work in...

This is the kind of thing that professional women have to live with. Every day. "It could be worse." And the point of that is completely lost on the blogger and the tech industry at large, who think that "it could be worse" is actually a compliment or a progressive ideal.

Pathetic.

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Key quote: "Instead, it casually dispenses with exercises of executive discretion based on a “specified class or category of aliens.” The administration either did not know or did not care that one of these specified classes included military families." This just demonstrates the purely incompetent nature of this D.C. regime. But why no one is pointing this out to GOPers at the national level is curious, since they all claim to love the military so much.