But a picture of the prez with half naked little girls on his lap would maybe get him out of the white house.

How? Who is going to push him out?

Why did the Romans fail?

I remember learning that the Romans fell because they were too gay and debauched and woke, so they lost their manly vigors.

Nevermind, history doesn’t like copypasta

I suppose its worth noting that the Roman Empire lasted centuries (millennia, if you see the Byzantine/Ottoman Empire as a continuation of Roman history). The UK is more comparable than the US, which flourished after WW1 and made it barely a century before fumbling.

But also, the book is hardly closed on the US as an empire. China, India, Persia, Rome, France… they all had their ups and downs.

The US writes the history books, runs the universities, and manages the international media networks.

A bunch of the documents released recently weren’t properly censored. All the information is out now.

Meanwhile, the US is stacking war crimes on war crimes across the Southern Hemisphere. The knee-jerk liberal response is “But the Epstein Files”, like killing 80 people to snatch a President of a foreign country on behalf of a hedge fund isn’t its own kind of evil.

How much TrumpCoin did the host country buy in advance?

Forming an agreement to protect Poland at all costs and calling it the Warsaw Pact.

What? No? Is that one taken?

Like tankie never really meant anything before

I mean, its historically described Soviet policy in Eastern Europe and Chinese domestic policing (Khrushchev putting down the Hungarian fascist revolt with armored infantry and Deng sending tanks into Tienanmen Square).

Now it just means whatever the opposite of neoconservative policy is, updated daily.

Being against tanks makes you a tankie at this point.

Everyone knows that if you’re against US tanks, you must be in favor of non-US tanks. You’re either with US or you’re with the Tankie-rists

Jesus this is a bad take

80 people were killed, cities were bombed, and we’ve got shits on here doing “it was an inside job, aktuly”

Fucking vile.

Look up the stats on defensive gun uses. Just Google it.

The vast majority (90+%) end with no shots fired- the criminal sees the gun and runs away.

Because it’s regularly over reported.

People call the police and claim they saw/heard a thing, then grabbed a gun. Police arrive to investigate and it is - predictably - nothing. Resident self-reports that they must have scared the ephemeral assailant of. Cops dutifully write it up without further investigation.

Gun-as-security-blanket is registered as successful defensive use.

Crazy to see people smile benignly while US Presidents shake hands with Saudi Kings and Egyptian Dictators, only to discover their love for democracy when a socialist they don’t like secures a 7-pt election lead.

If the J6ers had all been Venezuelan, I wonder if liberals would have stood back and let the US Congress get lynched?

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

Liberals will go on and on about how any defense of the Venezuelan government marks you out as a “Tankie”, then clap like seals as US tanks and helicopters obliterate homes, massacre civilians, and snatch people up as political extortion.

These are the same tactics used time and again by ICE Agents within the US’s own borders. They’re the tactics used abroad, to quell dissidents in The Philippines and Haiti and Gaza and Yemen. These are the actions of a fascist government for the purposes of genocide of native peoples, seizure of lands, and generating capitalist profits.

Anyone who endorses it has picked a side. Just a shame they can’t have these decisions carved into their foreheads for all the world to remember.

“Hey Palpatine, whatcha building?”

“Nothin’”

“Is it another Death Star?”

“No.”

“Can I see it?”

“…”

“This is another Death Star, Palpatine”

“It’s going to bring order to the galaxy at last, I tell you!”

Clearly, Maduro should have purchased more TrumpCoin.

Flipping through David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years

Turns out some of the first coinage was a means of providing field pay to soldiers. Its local circulation - combined with Roman taxation - was effectively used to extort occupied nations into paying for their own conquest. Locals were forced to pay the Roman designated governor in coin only Roman soldiers were provided, on pain of confiscation, enslavement, and death.

This practice of minting coinage to recollect as tribute has been a cornerstone of imperial economics into the modern day.

Hottest year on record. Can’t wait until hurricane season.

Every meme woman owes those workers an apology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce

Just leaving this here, with the understanding that Jesus can magically heal people.

Okay, what I said before but totally unironically for everyone in this picture except Macy.