https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-ties-hormuz-reopening-us-concessions-several-demands-2026-08-09/

#trump took #netanyahu refusal of peace plan and covered it, slow played it. #iran

🔥 TEXAS: “Registered voters in Tarrant County has increased 30% — to be closing polling stations is blatant voter suppression… when I joined the Navy, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic…Talking to you, Comrades."

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So then it’s no wonder, since certain, historically well represented members of society can simply refute with an assumed right to refute, a right of placement or simple existence, that the institutions which they shape, which have shaped them, skew because of it. The introduction of illogic breeds illogic. If simple existence is enough for one side, then aggrandized, storied, even embellished existence is necessary for the other. Because causality is lost, so appearance is everything.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jason-arday-cambridge-professor-eric-kaufmann-trump-college-funding-b3030432.html

There isn’t an inherent right or necessity of allowance for a #conservative position, or any position.

(Eric Kaufmann) ‘says, “there's not sufficient emphasis on savings, or whatever, in the African American community. Now, maybe that argument's wrong,”’

He tells on himself.

And that’s the crux of conservative moral positioning. It’s like arguing for a geocentric universe when we know it’s false.

Then the Independent closes with “both sides” at unis.

Anti-progress.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-markwayne-mullin-dhs-immigration-b3030519.html

#trump wants criminal acts from his section heads because he has the power of pardon. It’s like a carrot/stick race to the bottom. And everyone in America is affected by it, as it affects America. And America affects the world.

#ice #uspol

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-strait-of-hormuz-negotiations-terms-b3030066.html

#trump has never successfully completed anything in his life, other than con games, of which the presidency is one in a long line.

He makes everything he touches worse. #iran #uspol

(Iran is beating Trump by being recalcitrant and trolling. Take a fucking note, #democrats , as we go into an unlosable midterm and they’re going to call you communists. Do not give an inch.)

8/8
Thanks for coming to my wasTED talk. “Naval flotilla off the coast of everything you love gazing.”

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has allowed, enabled, #trump to “fail” up. The useful idiot smirking face is the brand, and brands are easily supported in a monopolistic vacuum. The fact that the combination of economic and diplomatic and avowing journalistic factors hasn’t been glommed by the ostensible enemy, the fuddy duddy doofus dems who fight for, rather than 1983, 1994, is evidence of their inability to move the needle. They can’t even see the weapon for the trees, because the entire forest is the weapon.

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Sheeple are the menu. In this system, of which fascism is a stage, feudalism a desire, and not Pan-consciousness, but uni-consciousness (the plural of a Bezos is a bozo, the distillation of which and reduction to provides mankind with the grandness it is naturally inclined toward), is the inevitable output. A fetus galaxy brain planet wide conduit of my way informational superhighway, inescapable, unalterable, option less. The media is only a small portion of the influence ecosystem which

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Which is the final piece of the #trump failure exceptionalism conundrum: the powers that actually be. And they do be, and they be doing. Theirs is a fight for supremacy and ownership, the limits of which are singular individual solipsistic consciousness, socio psychopaths with psychological ICBMs, from which we see evidence of shit everywhere (I see bm, you see bm, we all scream in a shit show). They are self-labeled shepherds whose unhinged unilateralism is best described as buffet, and

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But, because the reagents need agents, the Dems are cast by the eternally emotional, by the children powers that be, as the Enemy, as the profane, the usurper, the unholy. Whether or not Dems are those things (they fell on swords decades ago and try to fight with the lances lodged in their own inner beings), they don’t have even the rhetorical skill to assuage from other to adjacent, or to actually fight. They are a party of piñatas who can’t get off the hook, because their hooks are bad.

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Then, there’s the alternative. The people who the threatened believe they are fighting, who, though they have shown their neck and backtracked and conceded and genuflected, are somehow still seen as the enemy. #democrats are the most inconsequential that they have ever been. To fight means to act or to react. The religious right owns reaction. So, Dems have to be cast as actors, but they are demonstrably not. At a gun fight with a strongly worded letter, they are uniquely unfit for the time

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they will poison their punch to kill their enemy. Their enemy is also confusion. In complex systems, there are no simple answers. That makes people with savior complexes lost, because their divine agency of guns and loyalty and providence disintegrate. It makes their egos explode. So they fight it. An ego death is a death, and Republicans need it to be at most 1983 to live, so they fight anything post Regan with an existentially threatened metabolism.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-approval-scandal-b3029347.html

Instead of trying to explain how #trump is exceptional in his ability to fail and not fall, it’s necessary to look at the unique ecosystem of right now.

60% of Americans vote. Among those, half are Republicans. So 1/3 of the people Americans see at the grocery store are adjacently Trumpers. But of those, probably half are apoplectic rage baiters, nose for face self owners, who will die to kill. Contrarian doesn’t begin to cut it. Angry at the world (rightfully) (1/x)

It’s funny that #gaza #BoardOfPeace announcement, in true #trump fashion, had no diligence done, and was as much a pitch to #netanyahu , who is out of pocket for #us , as it was to the world he announced it to like a hegemony marketing scheme.

Trump is a tween. His entire response to any criticism or problem or hypothetical is to make shit up. It’s the equivalent of “it’d be really cool if..” but nothing he says is based in reality. And he’s #potus. President Fantasy World. #uspol

I like how for just a second with #toddblanche we thought that ethics might actually prevail.

The expectation of inevitability of democracy, stemming from western enlightenment, the ‘they go low we go high’ thing, is complete nonsense. #democrats even now, à la James Carville, are waiting for some blue eyed god to congratulate them for being the righteous victims, crowning them for all. And the absence they have left has been plowed by #trump.

All we’ve ever had is influence. It’s all we are.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/117057211021418357

As a point of reference, society offers opt in when things are going well, it’s the carrot, the open door version of participation most Americans were raised with.

But there is also, at a critical mass, a forced participation model, or an inability to opt out version. It’s often profited from by early adopters, salespeople, who say that “if you can’t beat em, join ‘em” and the pyramid scheme prompts uptake en masse.

Idk when critical mass stick happens, but it’s what they’re aiming for.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction-stop-appeals-b3029438.html

#trump : I’m the most beloved person in the history of the world.

Judge: You don’t have authority to spend on unilateral vanity construction.

Trump: They’re going to kill us at any moment. Only velvet curtains and gilded gawd can protect us from the world which loves me.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-last-house-billboard-sunset-blvd-la-netflix-b3029420.html

Turns out #netflix had thousands of applicants to live in the billboard, as rent was only 2200$/mo.