Nothing I’ve seen about this party suggests it’s more than a Pro-EU rebrand.

Socially conservative, business focused, steeped in white nationalism. But they hate Moscow more than Berlin.

Data isn’t very valuable if you can’t transmit it.

At some point you need to trust someone

He had twelve years to loot the country while running it into the ground.

What will be the consequences for his crimes?

Hehe. Of course not.

acts like an asshole

gets banned

“I’m a serious person!”

She did. Took them for all they were worth

CIA handles foreign shit. FBI handles domestic shit.

The DHS makes this distinction moot. We’ve been crossing the streams publicly since it was officially instantiated via Bush through the creation of the OHS and then the HSA Act of 2002. The two agencies have been operating hand-in-glove behind the scenes since the CIA’s precursor - the OSS - was incorporated during WW2. Even then, much of the modern CIA is merely an extension of the functions of the FBI on an international scale. They employ all the same strategies, employ the same leadership structure, and serve the same socio-economic purpose.

John Brennan and Robert Mueller / James Comey even filled the same political role under Obama. They promoted reactionary political views from within the liberal government, distributed misinformation to undermine peaceful coexistence with historic geopolitical adversaries, and continued the Bush Era practice of illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, and assassination while draping themselves in liberal language to justify it.

Brennan and Comey both publicly advanced accusations against the Obama administration that gave Donald Trump a path to the presidency.

John Brennan served as Obama’s CIA Director for four years. During that time - I’ve been told - foreign governments infiltrated our media and party establishment and legislature, corrupted our democratic process, and handed a known agent of a foreign government the position of Chief Executive.

This known agent was a co-conspirator of another well-known blackmailer and professional pedophile, serving as an agent of a foreign intelligence service within the United States for over four decades.

The CIA response to this infiltration was to… do nothing.

Meanwhile, agents within the CIA have manufactured consent for wars against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea for as long as our current president has been a known fence for the Russian mob. They have collaborated with the known blackmailer/pedophile for just as long. And - upon taking office - they faithfully continued to fulfill their duty as agents of a corrupt and despotic president, including through illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, arms sales, drug trafficking, and sabotage.

Why the fuck does the CIA still exist again?

The double tap strike is deliberately employed to murder medical staff and to punish the enemy for showing compasion.

It is paired with the Hannibal Directive, as a proscription to ally and adversary alike to offer no quarter nor to expect it be given.

It is the policy of genocide, imposed by a leadership that can only see victory in terms of annihilation.

What words shall bring great anxiety and turmoil to the contented, but relief to the miserable and tortured?

This, too, shall pass

During hard times, it brings hope for the future. In pleasant ones, it reminds us to remain humble.

All we can know with certainly is the inevitability of change.

Real Lysander Spooner hours

My wife once tried to grow potatoes and got what felt like a mile of potato greens while the slips barely grew at all.

Then she went back to her job as a lawyer and made enough money to buy a truck full of potatoes

And women earned rights in the UK before the US

Rights are very different than status.

Then again, racism was on the decline here

That’s debatable.

You mean high speed rail and electric cars?

I’m not a mathematician, but it appears to my untrained eye that 2/3 of Americans want Universal Healthcare

What does that look like in implementation?

Medicare For All is generally unpopular among senior citizens. Medicare buy in is more appealing, but does little to curb price gouging in provision of care. State ownership/management of care facilities is easily subjected to scandals that cost political advocate their jobs (the VA being a classic modern example).

So what’s the plan?

They don’t only want white people , they want poor, uneducated white people.

Eh. You need a well defined underclass. One of the “perks” of racism is being able to identify at a glance who the in group is supposed to be.

That’s how they build their base of uneducated impoverished white people.

Plenty of the conservative base is well educated and well off.

Rowling spends almost every bit of income she gets on funding anti-transgender organisations and literal fascists

I think you’re underselling how much she spends on country club memberships and private planes.

The undercover agent kills a secretly terminally ill teacher to protect a young boy who is being jumped into a fascist gang.

It’s bad storytelling (because the stakes have been ratcheted so low) not bad politics.

I mean, if unemployment is high and wages are low, there’s a certain Keynesianism theory that suggests we’re not building enough arches.

There’s a very funny juxtaposition between what they actually care about (white children) and what you seem to suggest. Sort of a reverse eugenics theory, where they need more white people because white people are naturally dumber.