StephanPolitical

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[stephanpolitical]

The Walls Truly Might Be Closing In on Donald Trump - National Security Journal

The Walls Truly Might Be Closing In on Donald Trump

Donald Trump entered the Iran war with more opposition than support, and nearly five months of fighting have made the political problem wors

[stephanpolitical]

'Beyond Imagination': Trump Thought the Supreme Court Made Him Untouchable — Now a Former Official Says Nearly 1 Million Americans Can Still Come for Him

'Beyond Imagination': Trump Thought the Supreme Court Made Him Untouchable — Now a Former Official Says Nearly 1 Million Americans Can Still

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump an extraordinary legal victory in 2024 when it ruled that presidents enjoy broad immunity fr

[dudewhoabides]

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell

[theoptia]

Louise Glück, from The Wild Iris; “The Wild Iris”

[nofatclips]

Wake Up by Arcade Fire, live at Glastonbury 2007

[azspot]

“Both Graham and McConnell possessed incredible power and chose to use it wastefully, wielding their authority to benefit the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the poor and powerless.”

— Why I’m Not Mourning: Death Doesn’t Erase a Lifetime of Harm

[aquadraco20]

Crazy how trump supporters think that immigrants getting poverty wages cause more inflation than trillionaires, billionaires, and millionaires. Then they go on about supply and demand- we never had trillionaires before. We are literally printing more money for these people to hoard. And 20,000 people getting paid less than minimum wage and living off of a bag of rice are the problem? Get fucking real. You are absolutely insane.

[spiritualseeker777]

[natalioovski]

[californiababylon]

[basil199]

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

الإخلاص للحقيقة هو سمة الأخلاق؛ فلا يوجد شكل أعظم وأنبل وأكثر بطولية للإخلاص من فعل رجل يتحمل مسؤولية التفكير.

آين راند، أطلس مرفوع الكتفين.

[cavernario-galindo]

Toonzee_artist

https://www.instagram.com/p/Da1EB0KB7LE/

[jazzcathaven]

It's music festival weekend in Kentucky. This band was the highlight for me on day one. The headliners were a nice little bluegrass band, and they weren't bad but frankly, a bit of letdown after these guys.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and pretends to believe it himself.

—H L Mencken, Notes on Democracy (1926)

[h/t Scott Horton]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“He allowed people to express their racism and bigotry in a way that they haven’t been able to in quite a while and they really love him for that. It’s a shocking thing to realise people love their hatred more than they care about their own actual lives. The hatred – what is that about? It’s a fear of your own weakness.” ― Fran Lebowitz

[eelhound]

“How does one hate a country, or love one?… I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love for one’s country; is it hate for one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

[earthanthem]

(via Chess Pieces)