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AMG Himself
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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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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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Meanwhile SNAP benefits are due to expire next week - exactly what he and the GOP want. Vile shit.
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
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.
I'm telling you it's the *perfect narrative hook* to exemplify everything wrong with this admin. It's perfect
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.
As a matter of current law, could the president just…knock down the entire White House? Just raze the whole thing to the ground?
I'm addition to being an idiot, he just seethes with misogyny.
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.
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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
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.
Just looking at those numbers and tearing out my hair. It's a function of propaganda muddying the water.
Man, just fuck this guy. Absolutely ridiculous behavior.
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
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.
If this doesn't summarize the Zeitgeist, what even could?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Yes, isn't it because they're writing from police incident reports? They're cribbing the language from the institution.
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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: