“Might?” He’s only been saber rattling with allies since day one.

That’s the point, always.

When it comes to displays of hypocrisy, it’s a show of power. I get to do this, you don’t. It’s on purpose to show you that they’re in control and they get to do things you don’t even though you’re actually following rules and decorum. They don’t have to and they want you to know it. “Hypocrite” is not an insult to them, it just means they’ve shown you their power and are happy to be called such.

It’s just like with bosses and workers. Workers do all the real labor that makes a business function, but the bosses take all the winnings. Bezos can’t deliver all those packages or roll out all those AWS servers on his own, but he gets to brutalize his employees and basically do fuck all not working because the real people who don’t actually want to fucking work are the wealthy.

Yeah way more likely he’s going to use mass protests as a pretext for Martial Law and canceling elections indefinitely.

Always has been

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Who remembers NYT sitting on the illegal NSA wiretapping story for the Bush admin for over a year?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

It wasn’t until more than a year later that the paper’s executive editor, Bill Keller, rejecting a personal appeal and warning by President Bush, gave the story a green light. (Bush had warned “there’ll be blood on your hands” if another attack were to occur.)

Exactly, Hussein was running a secular government while Al Qaeda were religious extremists pushing for religious rule.

https://archive.is/7NT83

September 6, 2003

Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks, even though the Bush administration and congressional investigators say they have no evidence of this.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans said they thought it at least likely that Hussein was involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to the latest Washington Post poll. That impression, which exists despite the fact that the hijackers were mostly Saudi nationals acting for al Qaeda, is broadly shared by Democrats, Republicans and independents.

US citizens are and have been fucking stupid. They don’t even need propaganda to believe stupid shit.

To be fair the CIA and FBI, like all other law enforcement, has spent literal decades training their agents to view US citizens as “the enemy.”

And DeJoy just stepped down because he did his job.

If they think this will protect them from that they are fools.

You said it Eugene Debs’ Ghost.

They didn’t say it would be Democrats fist-fighting Republicans…

Sounds more like progressive Dem on corporate Dem action to me.

On the one hand, at least a handful of them were on the campaign trail warning of such things. Even Darth Va-- I mean Dick Cheney came out and said what was happening was dangerous.

The country voted for him anyway (maybe?? feels a lot like 2004…) and so there’s probably a level of diminishing returns by continuing to talk.

On the other hand, anyone who thought the Democrat establishment full of millionaires were really going to bend over to save the common riff-raff is probably lying to themselves.

They know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)

McConnell isn’t the cool hero walking away from an explosion without looking back, like he thinks he is.

He’s the Joker fiddling with the controls because the explosion didn’t happen how he expected, and now when it finally does pop off he’s shocked and runs.

…and immediately after being done fighting they said “Hey, you Nazi scientists aren’t all bad. Why don’t you come work for us, mister Wernher von Braun?”

Seriously, he’s always been Americas unrestrained Id made manifest.

The US has done an absolute metric fuckton of coddling the absolute worst people and it shows.

Maybe y’all should have done some gun control at some point.

Now they’re all at the mercy of Trumps fucking brownshirts.

Delulu means they think she is crazy. Like deluded.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/318338

Pretty sure this is you defending Musk. But you do you, man. Pretend that people can’t see that shit.