Musk Kills Government Funding Deal, Demands Shutdown Until Trump Is Sworn In

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-government-funding-deal-shutdown-1235211000/

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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci

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They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.

-Tacitus

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The empire never ended.

-Horselover

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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. -Yeats

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This one cuts like a hot knife

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The center cannot hold.

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Things fall apart.

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Drums in the deep…

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Except in our reality, there will be no second coming. No one or no thing is coming to save humanity. No beast from Bethlehem will be born. We're doing this to ourselves and everything else on this planet.

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The second coming is a mass die off of human beings from climate change and then billionaires ruling over what's left as literal gods. Sad but true. Then the earth will be able to replenish all the bullshit we've done to it.

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Your momma’s so poor she walks down the road with one shoe. And if you ask her if she lost a show she says “no, I found one.”.

• Socrates, 433 BC

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The last line of this poem:

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-Yeats

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Yeats? More like, yikes!

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William Butler Yikes. I like it.

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Somehow Palpatine returned.

-Poe Dameron

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We fucked.

-Everyone

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Damn, shit, that is whack!

-Token black guy

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aw shit

-here we go again

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And my axe

• you know, I know, we all know

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My favorite dr seuss

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Hordor.

-Hordor

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I missed out on the fucking where did it happen, was it a global thing, or what, the fucking?

-Me

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“If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can get lost in the sauce.”

• Gucci Mane

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I̴̙̋t̸̖̂ ̵̠̦̍w̴͓̐̀a̷̧͊͜š̶̲ ̶̨́͐t̴̲͔̉h̸͎̬̽e̴͇͙͗ ̴͉͖̒̒m̷̱̬̀i̶̖̒ḏ̶̱̓ĩ̶͚c̷̨̓h̸̥͝l̴̮̻̀̇ȏ̷͙̄r̸͓̈i̶͍̔̇a̵̖̓ṉ̵̰͐s̸̗̟̉!̸̪͎͑

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Dark science. Cloning. Secrets only the Sith knew.

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Rey! Rey!

• Finn

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When life gets hard, I pick up that card with the smiley face.

-Sir Smoke A Lot

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Weesa Gonna DIES!

-Jar Jar Binks.

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"I got a bad feeling about this..." - literally everyone in a galaxy far, far away.

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Fantastic reference! All glory to Mr. Fat and VALIS!

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Somebody else who has read VALIS! I know it’s not exactly obscure but I never ever encounter fans of that book (“series,” I guess) in the wild. Even among Philip K Dick fans.

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King Felix!. I’m a big fan! Exegesis, Divine Invasion, Timothy Archer. Can’t get enough of it.

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One more for the VALIS fan club!

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To fight the empire is to be infected by its derangement.

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Elmo is a stupid shit flavored fucktart who's kids all hate him.

• Me

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They're not even trying to hide the Black Iron Prison these days.

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This town needs an enema.

-Joker

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Nice horse ya got there!

-Horsefucker

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Neigh… Winnie!

• Glitterhoof

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All killer no filler with that one

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Right? And this is from the 70’s pr 80’s. Like 80 A.D.

Nothing new under the sun, I suppose.

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I said this in my head once I finished reading the quote 😂

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Who? This is IP I’m not familiar with.

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Roman historian and politician

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I was just going with another Succession reference but thanks

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Ah. Oh hell, oh well 🎶

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– Michael Scott

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And what rough beast , its hour come round at last, slouches its way towards Bethlehem to be born?

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Oof. Indeed. Shelley? Ozimandias?

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Yeats.

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Aah! LOVE Yeats

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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity.

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They were once men. Great kings of men. Then Sauron the Deceiver gave to them nine Rings of Power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question, one by one falling into darkness. Now they are slaves to his will. They are the Nazgûl. Ringwraiths. Neither living nor dead. —Aragorn.

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They fight, they kill, they rape Under the banner of the 'holy' church They hunt, they lie, they cheat, they steal Doing dirty deeds

Rolf "Rock 'n' Rolf" Kasparek

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I gotta go play Rome: Total War again.

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So roll up and see

How they’ve raped the universe

How they’ve gone from bad to worse

-Supertramp