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The Coward’s Stage...
Patriotism and Other Convenient Myths
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Why This Death?
The Silence That Came Before It… Donald Trump has never shown much inclination toward the rituals of mourning. Public deaths tend to pass him by without remark. Soldiers killed abroad. Police officers murdered at home. Former presidents. Moments that ordinarily invite restraint, if not reflection. Trump’s response is usually
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The Broken Love the Camera...
And the Camera Loves the Broken.
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Killing Christianity...
Part I
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War as the Catalyst...
Caribbean Burning… It begins, as it always does, with “national security.” U.S. drones strike boats off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia, officially labeled “narco-terrorist vessels.” (Time Magazine) Colombia’s president calls the attacks “murder.” (The Guardian) Venezuela mobilizes its coastal defenses, while an American carrier group drifts
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You Voted for It...
RIGHTEOUSNESS… We live in a world built on two quiet engines of self-justification: in-group bias and moral licensing. In-group bias means we favour “us” and downplay “them” — a bias so basic it shows up even when groups are chosen at random. (Wikipedia) Moral licensing means when someone
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Karoline Leavitt: A Manufactured Mouth...
Karoline Leavitt doesn’t just stand at the lectern, she performs. Every press briefing is a stylized production, with Leavitt embodying a character more than conveying facts. But let’s not sugarcoat it: this is not a harmless PR strategy. This is active, deliberate deception. She is knowingly and willingly
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Gods Don’t Need Billing Codes...
The Waiting Room (Grimed)… We never wanted to be here. No one wakes up craving this, the flicker‑buzz of half‑dead fluorescent tubes, the sour stink of disinfectant layered over body odor, baby vomit, old coffee gone bitter in the corners of paper cups. The air tastes like pennies
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The Anatomy of Ugly...
The Mirror… Vanity is the armor of the weak and feeble. It begins as self-preservation, the trembling need to be seen as beautiful, competent, powerful, and hardens into doctrine. The mirror becomes a weapon; reflection becomes reality. What starts as grooming becomes camouflage, and what looks like confidence is
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Admiral Dementia and the S.S. Make-Believe...
Trump’s Navy speech yesterday wasn’t a salute to service, it was an SOS from an elderly subhuman allergic to reality. Between rewriting history and declaring victory over physics, nature, and probably a dead golfer’s dick, the only thing missing was the orchestra playing him off the deck,
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The Supreme Court: Justice in Drag...
Alexander Hamilton once called the Supreme Court the “least dangerous branch.” That’s cute, ain’t it? Like calling a bottle of whiskey the “least dangerous drink” at an Irish wake. Hamilton thought judges would just sit around reading law books and playing constitutional Sudoku while the “real” branches ran
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The Filth at the Center...
Crime and Parasites… There are certain crimes that should stop the music cold. No equivocation, no partisan parsing, no rhetorical detours into cheap propaganda. A baby’s skull was fractured. That’s the horror, the headline, the alpha and the omega. Dustin Clark, the accused, is not a misunderstood man