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I didn’t even bother to contain my glee as I read the news of US and Israeli stocks of missiles and drones dwindling to rock-bottom levels as the US and Israel pissed it away on decoys, empty buildings and other bum targets in Iran this past March and April.
Still, I didn’t think the US had lost quite that much. I was genuinely surprised – and delighted – to see the front page of the Washington Times the other day. One third gone, no active production lines running, no organized plans to fund more production… oh, holy shit, I can’t pretend I’m not enjoying this. I’m no expert on logistics, engineering, supply chains or any of that other cool shit, but I still feel pretty sure that the next run of Reaper drones will involve rubber bands and balsa.
I hear the UFC matches were pretty good, though.
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Peak Liberal no. 3
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Dear Liberal Amerika: SHUT the HELL UP about the 2024 election. Just shut the goddamn hell up RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. Your party supported fascism and genocide even though it meant defeat, and now they’re collaborating with fascists every chance they get. Hell, they just nominated a goddamn Nazi-tattooed ex-Blackwater merc and Abu Ghraib prison guard to the Senate.
So, don’t talk to me about the 2024 election, about my refusal to vote since 2004, about my utter lack of respect or faith in Democracy™ or any other American institution. Just SHUT THE HELL UP, Liberal Amerika.
More Peak Liberalism here (Feb 2017), here (May 2017), and here (Apr 2019).
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Tap The Brakes
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Trump taps the brakes…? “Taps the brakes”? JEEzus, they’re really breaking the Goofy Meter over at the Washington Times these days.
F’crissake, that bloated-ass smashmouth sonofabitch probably hasn’t done his own driving for a single day of his goddamn life.
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Just the other night, I learned of the passing of my friend and comrade, photographer Laura Sullivan – a.k.a. “Isis” – earlier this month.
I first became friends with Isis and her husband-to-be Michael Sullivan (a.k.a. “the Cubster”) in the late summer of 2007, when Isis and I were on the editorial board of the DC Independent Media Center and working together in the DC IMC’s foto/video workgroup.
Along with our comrade Daryle Lamont Jenkins of One People’s Project, Isis was covering the neo-fascists before it was cool. Under the collective pseudonym “Town Hell Posse” she, Daryle, Michael and I covered Ron Paul rallies in Philadelphia and Tea Party batshittery at rallies on Capitol Hill, and at healthcare town halls in Reston, among other zaniness.
Isis showed me the impact – and fun – of not holding the camera straight up and down all the time; she was a staunch proponent of what they call the “Dutch Tilt” in the business – or what Isis used to call the “Batman Angle”.
She got me to loosen up on my newsreels, to let go of the “straight” approach – to editorialize, to use music, irony, cynicism and sarcasm more in my storytelling style.
In 2010, Isis and I had the honor of being asked to leave the DC IMC editorial board for being “too radical”. No, seriously. Too radical for the IMC.
Thanks so much, kiddo; it was too fucking grand.
“Great Caesar’s Ghost!”
–Perry White.
“Information Age of hysteria
is calling out to Idiot America!”
–Green Day.
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