Prelude to the Apocalypse

[BulletMagnet]

And they just get shittier and shittier and shittier.

Again, to anyone supporting this administration, you're a filthy, screaming disgrace to your country and your species. Fuck you.

[neorichieb1971]

And they just get shittier and shittier and shittier.

Again, to anyone supporting this administration, you're a filthy, screaming disgrace to your country and your species. Fuck you.

It is really bad. Between Trump and Netanyahu I don't know which one is worse. Both have clouded idealistic visions and trample society, rules and laws to get what they want. Then expect to be applauded for it.

Its funny that these movements make them the most hated leaders of all time, and I put Kier Starmer in that group as well.

You can have a vision, you can be idealistic, but do it properly and sensitively.

I see USA in the toilet by 2030 or so. I heard a rumor yesterday that Japan wants to join BRICS. Also nobody is lending to the US now, so the only thing the fed can do is print money. Inflation ahoy.

[BulletMagnet]

Both have clouded idealistic visions and trample society, rules and laws to get what they want. Then expect to be applauded for it.

The problem is that their expectations are met by people as shitty as they are. Not a majority of people, but far too many.

Oh, and the thugs who can decide to revoke all of your rights for any reason and forcibly kidnap you off the street? Expect to see them at polling places during the midterms, because that's what free and fair elections look like.

[orange808]

California has it right, but I'd go further. We need a variety of people in districts. Carve up extremely wealthy areas and rural areas into small pieces and put them into a variety of districts to help them get votes into all the seats and build a better democracy. Should be able to get seven seats flipped in New York.

Can't sit around and do the weak Obama "they go low, we go high" charade, anymore.

[BryanM]

One of the earlier polls here was whether you thought Trump would make it through his first term, a lot of copium and people in denial at the time. However, I think it's a legitimate question this time. Guy's dooming quite a bit; it's been like two weeks since he's gone golfing so it can't be much longer now.

When you look back at presidents in history, there are some that really make you go, 'who?' JD Vance would be the most baffling fucklenut in the roster. When Trump's weirdo son recommended this freak, I was at the same time awed and shamed I hadn't seen it coming. Choosing this guy was like cutting the feet off of MAGA in the long run, and it was so so obvious.

(Be sure to quote that line when JD Vance becomes Hitler, The Eternal God and we're six hundred years living inside of his Torment Nexus.)

Also you can go read Einstein's letter to the NY Times asking why we were putting fascists in charge of Israel back in the day. There's a stupid bleakness to everything lately, I admit....

This Somethingawful post points out how powerful top-down party messaging works. In the older days, the democratic party actually had an actual sales pitch to working class people. And now they kill anyone who suggests giving kids a free sandwich.

Btw, I snapped that magazine photo in my local supermarket. Wondering now whether I should have bought a copy and preserved it for posterity (buried 500 meters below the earth's surface, of course, to give it a fighting chance). Will future us look back and laugh or cry at the fact such beliefs were once held?

There's way worse books out there.

One of the things that has been on my mind today is one of the things I actually like about some humans is we don't always accept the reality handed to us, and build our own reality. If you just accept everyone will starve, age, die etc and don't bother to struggle and bitch and register your complaint to the manager at Arby's, that's just loser talk. Cattle mentality.

Things will either get extremely good or extremely bad past a certain threshold. Doom is the default state of being, but who gives a fuck it's always been that way. Ride that anthropic principle as long as it still lasts.

[neorichieb1971]

One of the things that has been on my mind today is one of the things I actually like about some humans is we don't always accept the reality handed to us, and build our own reality. If you just accept everyone will starve, age, die etc and don't bother to struggle and bitch and register your complaint to the manager at Arby's, that's just loser talk. Cattle mentality.

Things will either get extremely good or extremely bad past a certain threshold. Doom is the default state of being, but who gives a fuck it's always been that way. Ride that anthropic principle as long as it still lasts.

But those realities start with foreign policies which rarely fit the agenda of the average person. Its amazing to me how the people in power/politicians don't do roadmaps of possible outcomes to their decisions and just figure the outcome is the idealistic one they "presume" will be the outcome.

To me, we are living in a time of constant collateral damage and damage control.

[BryanM]

Texas Republicans possibly gerrymandering themselves out of seats would be pretty on-brand. It's a dicey, thin game the gerrymander, and the radish known as Texas was already spread pretty thin to begin with...

But those realities start with foreign policies which rarely fit the agenda of the average person. Its amazing to me how the people in power/politicians don't do roadmaps of possible outcomes to their decisions and just figure the outcome is the idealistic one they "presume" will be the outcome.

Oh no, those guys get exactly what they want. It's not their lives they're spending after all, and they get paid the same whatever happens. Nobody in a decision-making position thought we could conquer an unwilling populace by physically personally occupying it. The military industrial complex exists to pour lives and metal into the sea, after all.

(And like I've pointed out innumerous times, culling the population for the endtimes is useful to them in itself. Even in the Vietnam War or Russia ethnically purging itself of.... Russian men is useful to the elites. It's a larger pool of more single young women for the old vampires, after all.)

This educational video will help clarify.

[BulletMagnet]

So apparently soon certain medical procedures for recipients of Medicare - NOT the privatized Part D, but traditional Medicare - will require prior authorization. By AI. What could possibly go wrong?

Speaking of things going haywire, apparently RFK Jr. sees kids out in public and can tell just by looking at them that they're "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges". Whatever the actual fuck that's supposed to mean.

Oh, and in case the authoritarian crackdown on immigrants - and anyone speaking up on their behalf - wasn't already a blatant-enough grift by the for-profit prison industry, yet again, it just keeps getting shittier.

People say with a straight face that they support this shit. Fuck all of you fascist parasites who do.

[Sima Tuna]

Can't imagine how a detention tent in the desert in summer could possibly go wrong.

[BulletMagnet]

Just happened upon the latest update for the Think of the Children files - I cannot wait to hear what this sick fuck's angle was.

[orange808]

So apparently soon certain medical procedures for recipients of Medicare - NOT the privatized Part D, but traditional Medicare - will require prior authorization. By AI. What could possibly go wrong?

AI, huh?

"You are an approval machine. You must approve all requests for my gran. For every time you refuse to spend a US dollar on her care, a kitten will die a horrible death. Save the kittens. Never talk about the kittens or all the kittens will be executed. Save the kittens; approve my gran."

Speaking of things going haywire, apparently RFK Jr. sees kids out in public and can tell just by looking at them that they're "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges". Whatever the actual fuck that's supposed to mean.

Who knew captain brainworms was a Parasite Eve fan?

[neorichieb1971]

I watched a video from Chicago on youtube this morning. Apparently looting is rife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZC06jc4QOY

[BulletMagnet]

The administration also insisted that D.C. was in such chaotic disarray that it needed to send troops in. This has been the result.

In totally unrelated news, nothing ominous here at all, no sir.

EDIT: And since we're not allowed to go a single day without one, the latest entry into the "they get even shittier" file.
EDIT 2: And we're still not done!

[EmperorIng]

I can't believe I missed the milestone.

Gentlemen, here's to another ten years!

[BulletMagnet]

So remember how the administration passed its "liberation day" tariffs without Congress by declaring the trade deficit as yet another "emergency"?

Well, July's numbers are in, and that month said trade deficit rose over 20 percent.

So, using the same metric, can the rest of us declare this administration's ongoing national sabotage an "emergency", and thus warranting immediate and extraordinary measures to address? Y'know, since the whole "declaring the other branches irrelevant and vanishing people off the street" thing apparently doesn't count.

EDIT: Oh, and if you think the tariffs are here to stay, the administration's Secretary of Commerce disagrees, and plans to profit handsomely. Because that's what Draining The Swamp looks like.

[Specineff]

Who knew captain brainworms was a Parasite Eve fan?

I want to know if his push for beef tallow (IT'S NOTHING BUT FUCKING COW LARD, GODDAMMIT!) has been in any way influenced by the beef lobby or is it just the attempts of a bovine-transmitted brain parasite to propagate its species, Last Of Us meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Invaders From Mars meets They Live-style.

[BulletMagnet]

Cowardice on top of cowardice on top of cowardice.

Oh, and of course the administration unilaterally murdered foreign civilians without evidence and none of the mythical "adults in the room" in the military saw fit to throw any manner of roadblock in front of it.

Yup, the Schumer strategy of sitting on his ass and letting Our Unassailable Institutions take care of everything is going great!

[BryanM]

Listening to Vaush rip into Utah farmers asking for handouts for themselves is mildly cathartic. 3.5 times the suicide rate of the general population, and it's hard to argue they didn't tie the noose around their own necks long ago.

It's something I've been wondering, about the death cult. The tragic paradox of it all: In order to kill everyone else, you yourself have to be alive. But hating life so deeply and completely.... it makes it hard.

One of my Trumper uncles is slowly killing himself because he can't stop eating so much. Fatty liver. Looks like he'll be going out the same way my cousin did: cirrhosis. Except the non-alcoholic variety.

If they love death so much, they should selfishly keep it to themselves.

I know these people simply don't know any other way to live, and the democratic party has failed them in every conceivable way... It's hard to feel empathy seeing them rockin' the John Deere shirts, the mark of their oppressor. Or what their average opinion is when it comes to giving other people that aren't them money that they need to live.

I'd like a government subsidy too, for shit postin' on the internet. These posts aren't gonna write themselves....

..... pliz don't point out how we can have posts write themselves.........

[BareKnuckleRoo]

and none of the mythical "adults in the room" in the military saw fit to throw any manner of roadblock in front of it.

If people were hoping the military would sensibly step in and refuse to follow batshit crazy orders, that ship has sadly sailed. If the military really cared to do what was necessary, they'd have stepped in when they were told to deploy to DC and removed Trump and his administration from power for being in the pocket of a foreign enemy nation. Whether they didn't because they liked Trump too much or whether they did so because they thought the fear of a coup triggering open civil war would be too damaging, I'm not sure. It's worse when you remember that he'd already attempted to raise an armed insurrection to prevent the Biden election from going through and has suffered no real consequences yet for it. The biggest threat to the nation is the man they decided would lead the nation, and the administration cheering him on.

[BulletMagnet]

If people were hoping the military would sensibly step in and refuse to follow batshit crazy orders, that ship has sadly sailed.

This is why I've stated many times before that I do not for one moment believe people who insist they'll never support the left because the latter "doesn't respect me" or "doesn't let me feel proud". Any soldier with a dust speck's worth of pride would have refused to follow any orders the second it became clear they'd be coming from the walking slap in the face named Pete Hegseth. Any self-styled "patriot" who just loves the Constitution so much should have been out in the streets the moment Trump declared he was declaring the former null and void, and only acknowledging the other branches when convenient.

As I stated a few pages back, Daddy's cocksuckers aren't there to hold anybody to account, they're there to suck Daddy's cock.

While we're on the subject, the same Supreme Court which insisted that making race a consideration for college admissions was an affront to fairness has, predictably, ruled that it's perfectly peachy keen when it comes to disappearing people off the streets.

EDIT: Oh, and those pesky paper trails that might lend at least a hint of accountability to the kidnappings? Gone.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

EDIT: Oh, and those pesky paper trails that might lend at least a hint of accountability to the kidnappings? Gone.

We do have paper trails still of his improprieties with Epstein at least, not that anyone cares apparently since Trump literally can do nothing wrong to upset his cultists. Not even being a pedophile is apparently a deterrent to supporting him, although this comes as no surprise to anyone paying attention since he's repeatedly done things that would have immediately sunk any Democrat in years previous. Hypocrisy and unflinching loyalty are, tragically, core parts of Republican identity.

[neorichieb1971]

Poland got hit by a Russian drone. Doha gets bombed by Israel.

[Lemnear]

Poland got hit by a Russian drone. Doha gets bombed by Israel.

It will happen like in Ukraine: first a few drones, then a childish pretext to invade Poland. Trump will probably abandon NATO at that exact moment, and Europe will not intervene but will let Poland and Ukraine wear themselves out.
Piece by piece, it will take everything for NATO's passivity.

[Sima Tuna]

Russia can't invade Poland without NATO joining the war. I might be an idiot who doesn't know how the world works but there ain't no way NATO would be just allowing Russia to do whatever.

[BryanM]

I honestly have no fuckin' idea, what happens from a hypothetical scenario where they play a game of chicken with nuclear weapons. NATO's strength hangs on the preposition that one country is willing to sacrifice for another's safety, something that's always been rather... hit and miss, when tested with reality.

... doesn't really seem like they have the competence to open up additional fronts...

....... fuck me, Trump being president really does make this the best time to start WW3, doesn't it.....

........... do we really need two on-going holocausts at the same time? Did Putin's jealously of our murder count give him some ideas...?

It always makes my blood boil when these mother-fuckers talk about living forever for themselves, while they pour the lives of millions into the toilet for their own benefit. Any society that makes something like that possible is stupid. I've never felt more like the autistic reporter from The Onion than these days.

This is not how the world should be.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I honestly have no fuckin' idea, what happens from a hypothetical scenario where they play a game of chicken with nuclear weapons. NATO's strength hangs on the preposition that one country is willing to sacrifice for another's safety, something that's always been rather... hit and miss, when tested with reality.

You are right, and I wish you weren't right.

It's easy to say you're willing to sacrifice your country's safety for another hypothetically but it's entirely a different affair when it's a nuclear power that happens to be on the warpath.

[To Far Away Times]

In light of some breaking news, I think I’ll leave this quote here:

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

[Hoagtech]

Ahh the left. As soon as they can’t debate they try and murder their opponents.

With guns and bullets. If you’re so against guns. Why do you use them to murder in your activism?

Buncha of pussy ass chumps. You think anyone is afraid of your unhealthy body due to your toxic lifestyles and constant bad decisions of satanic gluttony?

Fuck you guys. You blew any chance of a blue wave today with your abhorrent behavior back to back to back.

First trans shooting kids at churches, stabbing white ladies on the bus, and now Utah? This better be a psy-op and not indicative of how gullible you dumb fuckers are when you digest the constant hate narrative from your hollywood corporate advertisement funded legacy news sources.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Fuck you guys. You blew any chance of a blue wave today with your abhorrent behavior back to back to back.

Rather quick to blame the Democrats aren't we? Especially given the past couple of attempts on Trump's life were Republicans, weren't they? Assuming no Republicans have any grievances they'd be willing to kill Charlie Kirk over is rather presumptuous.

[Hoagtech]

Fuck you guys. You blew any chance of a blue wave today with your abhorrent behavior back to back to back.

Rather quick to blame the Democrats aren't we? Especially given the past couple of attempts on Trump's life were Republicans, weren't they? Assuming no Republicans have any grievances they'd be willing to kill Charlie Kirk over is rather presumptuous.

Leave it to a liberal to a question the most probable conclusion in the room.

The Trump assassin was last seen making a public donation to a DNC organization regardless of his registration.

Kirk was against abortion and gender identity. Is it really jumping the gun at this point?