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The Angry Metal Guy Himself. The distinguished ringleader of a pugnacious group of cretins. Holder of Very Important Opinions™. Lover of metal. MN sports. PhD in sociology. Opinions here are mine alone. http://www.angrymetalguy.com IG: @angrymetalguy

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · Jun 19

PSA: When there’s a difference between what you feel and what you’re supposed to feel, and you make an effort to correct that, that is called emotion work. When your job is getting paid to do emotion work – the smiling face at MickyD's, flight attendant, even sex work – that’s emotional labor.

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 4h

Updating my LEGO White House

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Now I've Done It @nowivedoneit.bsky.social · 7h

Meanwhile SNAP benefits are due to expire next week - exactly what he and the GOP want. Vile shit.

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 7h

Also sorry that everything is so rough. I feel like we're all going through it lately. But maybe it's just that everything everywhere sucks

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 7h

Fuck cancer

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 7h

Oh man; haven't thought about her in ages. I love her voice.

That said, she's got a bit of Dave Gahan in her. She's got a lot of energy and that music is so tame that it feels incongruous.

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 7h

I'm telling you it's the *perfect narrative hook* to exemplify everything wrong with this admin. It's perfect

Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 8h

A district court would preliminarily enjoin the razing but SCOTUS would stay the PI and allow the razing to occur while litigation concerning the razing’s legality proceeds.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h

As a matter of current law, could the president just…knock down the entire White House? Just raze the whole thing to the ground?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 8h

I'm addition to being an idiot, he just seethes with misogyny.

AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 8h

Aw, thanks 🫠

AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 9h

But even if they have violent terrorists, they don't have an authorization of the use of force. You aren't allowed to just fucking kill people.

AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah for sure.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 13h

Just looking at those numbers and tearing out my hair. It's a function of propaganda muddying the water.

AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 13h

Man, just fuck this guy. Absolutely ridiculous behavior.

Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

The White House said on Tuesday it will submit plans for President Donald Trump's $250 million White House ballroom project to a body that oversees federal building construction, even though demolition work began earlier this week reut.rs/4ndTcfL

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 14h

It's the perfect analogy for the whole presidency. It's illegal, it's rushed, he lied about the consequences, it can't be undone, and it's deeply venal and vain. This is the narrative hook for the complete story of Trump that Democrats need to start telling yesterday.

AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 20h

It doesn't help that every time I see the guy on the left I just think...

a close up of a man 's face with the words inconceivable written on it .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words inconceivable written on it .

media.tenor.com

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 20h

If this doesn't summarize the Zeitgeist, what even could?

My most recent post, where I'm retweeting a thread about militarizing drug cartels as a consequence of bad South America policy followed by a joke account called Endless Screaming, which is letting out a blood curdling scream.

AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 20h

Grim thread. Worth reading. What are the possible consequences of this terrible Caribbean policy? One of them is a power vacuum that elevates the very people they ostensibly want to defeat.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 21h

One thing that hasn't been much discussed so far is that, in addition to putting enormous pressure on very fragile regional states, the US military campaign risks turning drug-trafficking cartels into the kinds of political terrorist insurgencies Trump II is for now falsely portraying them as.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting that Noboa's govt has released the Ecuadorian national repatriated after the strike, but Petro's plans to prosecute the Colombian (after he recovers from his injuries).

I would have expected the reverse.

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 20h

4:3 BTW: WaPo didn't address that it is illegal. This isn't manufactured outrage. This is literally emblematic of ALL the problems of the current regime's tendencies. This is the narrative hook you need to explain Trump's mode of being in the world.

AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 20h

The opposition needs to run ad after ad about this. They need to blanket the airwaves connecting this illegal, unnecessary, wasteful and venal (but poetically perfect) project to the story of Tr*mp's authoritarian tendencies, his greed, his selfishness, and tie it all to the economy and the GOP. 3:3

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 20h

John Roberts' ridiculous notion of the "energetic executive" that can't be stopped by process. They *destroy things* and then it's too late. You cannot get back what's lost. And *literally no one* wanted to spend $250 million on a Royal Ballroom when people can't afford groceries or healthcare. 2:3

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 20h

I know that it's no longer fashionable to ask about legalities, but from my perspective, the issue here isn't just a "lack of transparency," or the visuals of them ripping down the People's House while the govt is shut down. It's that no money has been appropriated. And this is what you get from 1:3

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21h

A demolition job that began Monday with the disappearance of the White House’s eastern entrance advanced Tuesday with the destruction of much of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom.
https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

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AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, isn't it because they're writing from police incident reports? They're cribbing the language from the institution.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

and if you do that enough....tada...suddenly you're in charge of CBS News despite not owning a television

Bari Weiss Gets To Work ‘Fixing’ CBS ‘Bias’ — By Making It More Biased

For more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has embraced a neat trick: by claiming that literally anything in factual opposition to their beliefs is “biased” and therefore must be dis…

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Me 10 years ago: You know people are always calling political opponents Nazis even if they aren’t anything like Nazis, I wish that would stop

Monkey‘s paw:

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