@Murph_RochNY@Stonekettle ‘Organ Leggers’? ‘Block Wars’?SO MANY of the slang phrases they imagined/invented was such pure Brit Brogue? Even as a kid I KNEW who was writing the comic before I actually KNEW.
@BettyBowers Hello fellow humans. This facial expression is natural to both of us and denotes happiness, definitely not a bottomless black well of greed and bitter resentment. We smile often in our private time. We *don't* despise you with every fibre of our being. Give us money.
@johnpavlovitz The owners are in it for power. Their servants (the government) are in it for wealth. Mid tier and below are the believers who think they can change things. The peons just want a win in a life full of losses, and believe that this is the same as others losing. It's feudalism.
Here's the thing about the Republican voters I know: they know their party tried to overthrow the Government/overturn an election. They know they're perpetuating the pandemic. They know they're gerrymandering because they can't win elections any other way. They just don't care.
@patriottakes Look at this shill for Big Hat, wearing her skull muzzle. Wake up sheeple the sun is natural and we evolved with it, hats are a scam and they just want your freedom. Proudly lobster red here, I'll never submit.
@RBReich Your democracy is finished. Has been since Bush Sr. The country is owned entire by the ultra wealthy. It's ongoing rape is administrated by their servants who occupy the seats of government, whichever "side" is in office. Everyone else is either already, or soon to be, a slave.
Once again, white nationalists are walking through Washington.
Don’t become complacent.
Don’t tune out.
Don’t give up.
Our democracy is at stake.
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@GeorgeTakei You're about to lose abortion rights. Following which you can also expect to lose many other rights. For a nation so universally obsessed with the rights of the individual it seems insane how many individuals are not just accepting this but cheering for it.
@RBReich And by "spent" you mean "funneled into the pockets of corporate entities which own, entirely, every politician with any actual power in the country". The permawar is a mechanism for the theft of tax money, and the power that comes with it. It will never end.
In the 20 years since 9/11, the United States spent $8,000,000,000,000+ on war. Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education?
@Stonekettle Remember when God pranked that guy by saying he should kill his son as an offering, and the guy totally believed him and had the knife ready and everything and at the last minute he said "sike!"? Maybe he's *technically* pro life but he is definitely a gigantic dickhole.
@TeaPainUSA Tina Forte fancies herself a warrior, with skills to scale obstacles ... to enter a restricted areas at the Capitol insurrection?
Forte even praised her fellow Trump supporters for "storming the Capitol."
@TeaPainUSA Crazy eyed white woman. Wrong side of 40. Chain smoker voice. Batshit insane war fetish. Poorly educated, ignorant and proud of it, with a raging need to kick downwards. This is the end product of the last 50 years of public policy in the USA. This and millions like her.
@TeaPainUSA This is going to become a cottage industry: do something racist on camera, get internet famous, put up a GoFundMe and make thousands from likeminded assholes, pay your laughable fine. Net gain. Then go on the right wing podcast circuit and make some real money.
@RBReich How to properly scale up your war for profit business model. There's no desire to end it, there never was. There needs to be a plausible excuse to siphon all that tax money into military contracts that are totally not connected to the people making the policy decisions.
Since George W. Bush led us into Afghanistan in 2001: over 241,000 dead (including at least 2,400 American service members, 73,000 Afghan civilians, 78,000 Afghan military and police, 84,000 opposition fighters).
Over $2 trillion in US spending.
What if anything did we learn?