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Is this from a stand up routine? If so, please share lol

Kissinger is probably four degrees of separation from Epstein at the most and that's assuming Epstein had a handler

AOC has been sheepdogging hard. That vote blue no matter who bullshit, refusing to condemn the Palestinian genocide for over a year, voting for that ADL "antisemitism" bill. Not ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater yet but it wouldn't be surprising if she goes all social imperialist all of a sudden.

Iranian hackers have the opportunity to do something hilarious

Productive for whom? Having an assload of dem bills isn't progress in and of itself. What did that congress pass that made life meaningfully better for everyone? They could have passed single payer healthcare, didn't. They could have passed medicare for all, didn't. They could have raised the federal minimum wage, didn't. Could have codified Roe v. Wade, fucking didn't.

First they filled the Obama cabinet with citibank execs right as it became clear that bankers had caused the economic equivalent of a manmade famine for a quick buck. Then, when it was time to pass the bills that got them elected they dragged their feet and watered down the bills as soon as they had the flimsiest excuse. I won't call it "compromising" because if they absolutely wanted to put their foot down and pass all that shit, they could have. We've seen ample proof. Their sponsors wouldn't stand for it and that's who calls the shots in Washington.

The purpose of a machine is what it does. Whenever Dems have a majority all they do is stall or endlessly dilute their bills until what was originally supposed to be a meal program or closing a loophole for insurance to scam people or whatever, has to include millions for cops or the DEA or an aid package for Israel. Real convenient how they're allowed to be real loud and progressive only when they're guaranteed to lose the vote.

The system remains functionally the same. It matters very little who has the majority, whatever the government ends up doing is usually what is popular with billionaires.

Nice sources commie but have you considered that I can't hear you and Putler is a poopyhead and you probably want to kiss him on the mouth?

Haha cmon guys we got one for every important country in Latin America aren't you flattered guys, I mean, cmon

You've got it the wrong way round, the axis of evil which is NATO did denounce the elections. Most of the rest of the world sent observers who confirmed the results.

Few exceptions, of course, as Lula seems to rather like how his ass feels on the fence and Boric hasn't found a boot big enough that he won't have a go at licking it.

I do agree with your points. I think it's certainly an insightful book (just not in the way Orwell intended) but not a good book.

It's short, it's incredibly concise, it doesn't use needless academicisms, and it's surprisingly very funny. It's probably the best value-to-volume ratio of any political text imo.

Panem et circenses except you're gouged for your panem and the circus is congress itself

It's short, but not punchy. It's a
hundred pages of diatribes, some misogyny, a story beat, another fifty pages raving about bureaucracy, a story beat, and 100 pages about brainwashing and how socialism fucking sucks. Then the most half-baked "how do I tie this bad essay together?" ending.

It's Atlas Shrugged for people who do take showers.

That's not true, they've also read 1984 and thought all "adult" books are gonna be this fucking dreadful and boring so they don't read anymore, they just pretend idiocracy was a documentary 1984 is like, so true, man

It's been like this for a while. Westerners weaponize international bodies, they did the same while manufacturing consent for the Iraq war.

Lol imagine being so brainwashed that you don't uncritically believe when USAID funded outlets tell you North Koreans are so genetically intellectually inferior that they honestly believe Kim Il Sung is god, was the best sportsman ever at everything, and he's immortal now? Dude they literally make them pull trains by hand because they're so poor, I heard somebody say it!

All the hours and weeks and months and years of footage is all faked tho

Not even gringos think they have a democracy lmao. And if you do, your opinion of what a democracy is should only be used to consider the opposite.

Such as?