Yep, exactly what he's doing. The polls are fake, the policies that would improve the lives of most people aren't popular actually. What a gross little weasel.
djphdk
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I don't know, I'll defend the prequels a little bit. They're still bad movies, but they're bad in a way that was... interesting? Besides pod racing, which rips, they had some actual political ideas and were at least set against a backdrop of a liberal democracy descending into fascism.
A manufactured war creates a crisis and goads a small group of bourgeois senatorial elites to concentrate power in the hands of a unitary executive who uses that power to abolish the liberal democracy. The sequels don't have anything resembling politics, just vibes.
George absolutely needed reined in but he did have some good ideas in the all the slop. But I'm willing to give him way more slack for modeling the rebels in the OT after the Viet Cong than maybe should. 
lemm.ee
Posting the worst take you've ever seen
If he and Harris campaigned on universal healthcare he'd probably be VP right now.
Too bad, now we don't get to watch them pretend to pass Medicare For All while complaining about the assistant secretary of the senate or whatever blocking the bill.
"A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.... The memo acknowledges that the list includes many terms that are used by the NSA in contexts that have nothing to do with DEI. For example, the term "privilege" is used by the NSA in the context of "privilege escalation." In the intelligence world, privilege escalation refers to "techniques that adversaries use to gain higher-level permissions on a system or network."
Sounds like you have some real fun news for him about how close Ukraine is to Russia.
AK-47's for everyone!
That quote is just burned into my brain forever
"Armed groups loyal to the United States" is a weird thing to call the US military
The Whirling in Rags themes are so good. Sea Power, the band that did the soundtrack, repurposed the song on their most recent album
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SHE'D HAVE BOMBED IRAN TOO AND ALL THE LIBS WOULD THINK IT WAS GOOD