#Objects: USA

[joeygallagher]

Objects: USA

Viking - First Edition. 360 pp., 8 1/2" X 9 1/2"

by

Lee Nordness (1970)

Left page: Joseph A. Pugliese - HARRY 1968

Right Page: Kenneth Price - S. G. White 1966

[eugenedebs1920]

Politicians lie to get your vote. They bend the truth. They may even knowingly make a false claim. The Trump administration is the complete distortion of objective reality.

I am perhaps a bit too informed on current events, particularly the fall of American democracy. So far in this second round of Trump, I’m not sure if I’ve heard a single word of truth from him, those around him, or his propaganda networks.

It had been nonstop lies, corruption and criminality. Seriously! Not a single ounce of truth.

First thing he did was pardon the Jan 6th insurrectionist, claiming they had been treated very badly. Many of them beat the crap out of capital police, they stormed the capital looking to sting up Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi. They stole documents, smeared feces all over walls, and defiled our nation’s capital. Many deserved the sentence they received.

Second thing was to blame all of Americas problems on people with brown skin, gay people, trans people, anyone who wasn’t a straight white man. Even when his stupid ass transportation Secretary had the first air crash in over a decade, that was because of minorities somehow. Funny. Pete Buttigieg is gay and not a single plane crashed during his whole time as Transportation Secretary.

Trump brings in the world’s richest man to make government efficient. Yet the first thing he does is dismantle USAID, a program that was less than 1% of the U.S. budget and gave food and medicine to the poorest people across the globe. Think of it! The richest man on the planet, taking food from the most impoverished people on earth. It’s unbelievably messed up.

The guy who spent almost $300 million getting trump elected then starts rummaging through every aspect of the federal government where, ironically, he starts dismantling and picking apart agencies that were investigating his companies. CFPB and SEC were looking into his electronic currency for X, dissolved or defunded. The FDA was looking into the brain chips he was working on, defunded drastically. The FAA was bringing charges against spacex for the rocket explosions that posed numerous dangers, massive funding cuts. You hear very little about this on “legacy” media.

Trump betrays Ukraine, goes so far as to call Zelenskyy a dictator but praises Putin! He has Jerkin Dicks Vance make some ABSURD speech condoning AfT rhetoric and berating our allies, we vote against condemning Putin’s war crimes, along with countries like, North Korea, Belarus, Iran, and of course Russia. WTAF!? And maga is cool with this? We joined the damn axis of evil! The just shameful ambush of Zelenskyy in the White House, it’s one of those things you can’t unseee. Just disgraceful…

The immigration enforcement is fascist to the core! Whatever you think about a country of immigrants immigration policies, a country which committed genocide against the native inhabitants, that made its initial fortune on the backs of enslaved peoples, that nation should have learned 250 years later that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and minimum respect at least. The only lawyer who spoke the truth in court over the administrative error which sent a Maryland man to a supermax prison in El Salvador, got fired by the administration for telling the truth! Lawyers are bound by a code of ethics (believe it or not) and swear an oath to uphold the law.

The tariffs. My god the tariffs. In 100 days America went from the best economic recovery of all developed nations after covid, to the stock market tanking and the contraction of the economy as a whole. Lie after lie about this too. Not simply about inflation or Wall Street, but telling us not to believe our lying eyes and empty wallets with claims that prices are actually down. I CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT THEY AREN’T! How dumb do they think we are!?

Then there’s the full on assault to the first amendment. It’s funny because the right has been setting the precedent that liberals have been attacking the first amendment for years now. (a good way to predict what corruption Republicans are planning is to listen to what they are accusing others of. Promise! It works every time) Why!? Because your Facebook post on how ivermectin cures covid was disputed and taken down? Cry me a river. Trump has attempted to dictate what university professors can teach and the curriculum offered. He has sued law firms for defending causes in conflict with his. He has instituted Christian defense orders. Sued and threatened multiple press organizations. We haven’t even seen the response to an enormous protest in DC yet. June 14th. Be there…

There is not enough time in my life to go over every lie that Trump and his administration have perpetuated, but I can tell you this. The proposed budget, the funding cuts, the degradation of constitutional rights, the immigrant hate, the installation of HIGHLY UNQUALIFIED loyalists in intelligence and defense agencies, defying the courts, discrediting the press, politicizing religion, going after universities, eliminating the department of education, using the DOJ as a personal retribution law firm, military parades, accosting our allies, aligning with autocratic regimes, ignoring due process, creating an alternate reality void from facts or data, where nothing one sees is what they’re actually seeing, distorting what’s real, what’s true, what’s objective, and not backing down from that fabricated story.

I could go on.

These are the actions of a dictator. These are the doings of autocrats. What is playing out in front of our faces is the destruction of the American democratic representative constitutional republic, and the inception of a fascist state. It’s been 100 days people!! This much damage has already occurred.

I posed a question the other day that stuck in my mind. Is it that maga believes the lies that are told to them, does nearly half the country lack the critical thinking skills to see past the propaganda? Or is it that their disdain and animosity towards liberals is so great they simply don’t care? The hatred towards their fellow Americans for having opposing political views is so strong, that they’re willing to burn the whole thing down just to “own the libs”?

I can’t answer that with clarity, but either way….

It’s not good

[havepatienceandendure]

The parallel of donna calling a man she has been fucking for weeks ‘good boy’ when he does something she wants at work to harvey in literally episode two calling mike a ‘good boy’ when he does something harvey wants at work. Writers of suits explain yourselves

[charliewrites99]

Look I don't even care about basketball like that at the olympics, but I need Serbia to win only because of how salty and bitchy NBA twitter will be. As a fandom girlie lurking there...no fandom I have been in has ever been that obsessed with their faves. You say your goat is Steph Curry and people will turn wiccan and put curses on your entire bloodline. Swifties got nothing... They be cheating on their wives, but stay loyal to Kevin Durant.

[anghraine]

Speaking of "The City on the Edge of Forever," I've been thinking about how my femslash Spirk AU winds out through the canon TOS episodes, interacts with gender expectations of the show, etc, and am mentally organizing episodes by how drastically affected they'd be.

I'm also thinking of S'paak hiding her ears beneath a beanie in 1930 :P

[taviamoth]

The American government agreed to send a shipment of 500-pound bombs to the zionist entity after withholding it for two months, according to American officials. The shipment will be delivered in the coming weeks.

Since October 7th, the US has sent 14,000 highly destructive 2-ton bombs 3,000 Hellfire missiles, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 1,000 bunker-buster-bombs, and 2,600 small-diameter bombs to the zionist entity, as of June 2024. Much of these were transfered in secret weapons deals. The IOF has dropped 80,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip since October 7th.

[ocdhuacheng]

To the half of my mutuals in my notes that would vote for Philly over Chicago……. Sleep with one eye open babes.

[helenvaughans]

In social media posts, [Mississippi state auditor Shad] White also dismissed fields like African American studies, gender studies and anthropology as “useless degrees” in “garbage fields.” Instead, in the report, he recommends that students enter fields like construction management. See how efficiently students in the poorest state are shunted toward the vocational: It’s not personal. It’s business. This, despite a study by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that found that humanities majors are comparably likely to be satisfied with their jobs and employed in supervisory roles as graduates from other majors. The report is unsettling because we’ve seen universities around the country enact budget cuts that have reduced humanities offerings. In August, West Virginia University proposed cutting academic majors and programs, in a bid to reduce the budget shortfall caused in large part by declining enrollment. The process, as outlined on the provost’s website, seeks to create “a more focused academic program portfolio aligned with student demand, career opportunities and market trends.” Consider the terms the provost used: trends, market, demand, portfolio, metrics.

–Beth Ann Fennelly, "Stop Corporatizing My Students," The New York Times, November 15, 2023.

[deeplovelydark]

hating usa is just and good but there's a catch. here in russia it's used as an excuse for war & imperialism and belief in our own supremacy. so you're forced to defend usa in a kind of bothsidesism way.

[ishkabibblethings]

[qualitysigns]

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

[lavandxr]

somehow landed on a conversation about mcdonalds chicken nuggets last night and gf said she didn't like them as a kid bc they were "too sweet" and i was like girl what. chicken nuggets don't taste sweet and then. then remembered i had french mcdonalds and she had usa mcdonalds

[brw]

People praising Percy's X Force for being a criticism and analysis of the CIA is really funny because no, objectively he Did Not Do That.

[nando161mando]

"Liberalism is objectively the moderate wing of fascism"

[captainfairygodmother]

1938; do I have to spell it out?

The world waits, anxious,

As they try to appease a man whose

Greed knows no bounds,

Whose hatred runs deeper than the

History of his own country.

He lays claim to the land around him--

No, the land beyond that

Sanguinary sea.

Deals made with the enemy so

That he can satiate his appetite for

Blood-lust and 'foreign policy'.

We're on the verge of war again;

Threats eat away in anxiety.

You may think you're above that dictator,

But you're just another yesman in this

Useless propaganda that surrounds you;

Censorship and lies become the truth

In your minds.

Hear the desperate cries for help

That so often fall upon your deafened ears.

He makes one promise, only to

Break it seconds later, fingers crossed,

Bearing daggers, behind his back;

Useless, useless,

So easily deceived.

How can this danger not be perceived?

Praise, praise. Rage, rage,

Bread and work, lower egg prices and wage,

Post-recession, your minds are recessing

Into this primitive belief

That you can be saved.

You will not be saved.

You will not be spared.

How long will it take?

To them, you are just like those

That you claim to hate.

The blood of your class runs the same

As the next person along, but

The people you choose to praise like gods

Have ichor the density of gold.

They do not care for your blood

Being spilled in the crossfire.

They do not care for your homes,

Your neighbours, your entire lives

Being destroyed.

Necessary casualties. Collateral

Damage. Your faith is displaced,

Just like the people you mock for

Their crimes of wanting

To be free from this tyranny.

Sinful. Illegal. Extraterrestrial.

You lose nothing. They lose everything.

Then he takes from the poor to

Give to the rich. Hood Robin.

And so you lose everything,

But you did not care when the benefits

Outweighed the negatives; you stood by this

Destruction. Causation and correlation.

You have no right

To complain when it's your voice, your

Home, your family, being taken.

Your ignorance brought this upon you;

Hungry thirties and beyond.

Do I have to spell this out?

This isn't about 1938.

[sillygoofygooberguy]

Triden but it’s a 2000s Highschool Shoujo Romance Manga

(zoomed out + zoomed in versions, I did this in free draw on roblox so the quality sucks 💔)

okay basically the lore I have is Trump-chan is in love with Biden-kun, who is the captain of the varsity basketball team. both of them have crushes on each other but feel conflicted due to their complicated past and thus reject those feelings, and the internalised guilt and hatred surrounding these feelings causes them to act antagonistically to each other. Like miscommunication and self-hatred basically causes them to have an enemies to lovers type trope. -> If you wanna make Trump-chan male or Biden-kun female, there could be potentially internalised homophobia which makes it better tbh

Elon-kun is in love with Trump-chan, and is very jealous of Biden-kun getting his attention. Elon is part of the student council, and he gets away with a lot of things because he’s from a billionaire family and thus his parents give money to the school. (Typical rich-kid with absent parents archetype basically LOL, he’s also a nerdy character who aggressively uses AITA reddit forums.)

Kamala-chan is the president of the student council, and she is also part of the debate team. She’s friends with Biden, and she is fairly popular.

can you tell revision is getting to me mentally

I have more lore of this too, feel free to contribute your own 🙏