Yeah, this has to be the White Power Rangers.

So we have rogue agencies all competing amongst themselves to make a big splash in the news so that they can please Trump, the head of the cult of personality, while doing what they can to consolidate power.

How could you avoid talking about ICE continuing to murder people in the streets?

OP specifically asked about conflicting messaging and I summed it up without getting into every scandal and atrocity. Maybe write something up yourself next time if you think you can do it better?

The messaging coming out of the administration is largely done by agency heads. These are positions that are appointed by the president, and the single most important qualification is loyalty to Trump.

There’s also a scramble for each agency head to grab as much power as possible, even to the detriment of other agencies because they know that Trump likes for them to find ways to push boundaries to consolidate gains. If it is at the cost of another agency head, so much the better: it just shows they were weak and raises the “go-getter” in Trump’s esteem.

Aggravating the entire situation is that they’ve nearly isolated themselves from reality because the only voters they care about, the reactionary base, have been propagandized for decades to mistrust and despise every source outside of the far-right bubble. These sources, like Fox News, Breitbart, News Max, etc. have no incentive beyond telling their viewers what they want to hear because otherwise the audience will leave for a harder right source. To further compound the issue, Trump sees the world almost exclusively through a media lens and knows that the media can’t effectively tell about a hundred scandals at once.

So we have rogue agencies all competing amongst themselves to make a big splash in the news so that they can please Trump, the head of the cult of personality, while doing what they can to consolidate power.

It’s kind of always been that way, right? Reactionary racists wanted a way to get rid of Jews in their country and nationalist Jews wanted an ethnostate. The Christian support for Zionism hinges on their belief that there needs to be a Jewish state in Israel so that everyone there can be converted to Christianity or die.

Beshear should force the issue and appoint a successor. Let them dispute it with proof of life or STFU.

Groß if true

I hope it’s bad for his blood pressure. I want to see those balloon legs throbbing.

Early this month, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, a Barack Obama appointee sitting in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order in the plaintiff’s favor, reasoning that it was “difficult to fathom how” the government “could have concluded that a reasonable observer would view the flag as a true threat.”

It’s because their diaper daddy told them to. That’s all there is to it.

I recently re-read Aurora. It’s incredible, maybe my favorite of his.

I’ve not yet read 2312 because when I find an author or director I like I want to spread out reading/watching them. I hate the idea that one day I’ll have read all of KSR’s books. I think it’s time to dive in though.

If you like hard eco-political sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series is one I still think about often, and I read it about 20 years ago now. Bonus: if you like it then he’s written a whole lot of other great stuff.

Why not just go by the constitution? You know, the highest law of the land? It’s explicit and clear about who is a citizen.

Oh, I figured it’d be Dinesh D’Souza. He’s really spoiled for choice for hosting convicted election fraudsters, huh?

Set the dancing crabs on high alert.

Guess the only thing for him to do is to die mad about it. Hopefully a heart attack takes this pain from him sooner rather than later, I hate to see a proud man suffer.

Now I have to read Roberts’ opinion and see how he fucked us for a generation by writing it, huh?

They’re planning to steal the election.

Republicans know that they’re unpopular; they win by suppressing the vote in Democratic strongholds, having the White Nationalist representatives pick their voters based on race, disenfranchisement of racial minorities through imprisonment and criminalization, a court system that is clearly biased for Republicans, collecting unlimited dark money from billionaires, and lots more.

Nazis are like cockroaches: filthy shit-eaters that you have to keep stomping every time they return.

This guy is a white nationalist piece of shit, but I guess that’s why he got the job

Here’s a critical look at his conversation with Joe Rogan recently (Know Rogan podcast, #0072 - Marc Andreessen Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance).