Osama bin Laden would be thrilled with the state of the US today.
This is actually what Al Qaeda wanted - to provoke destabilization of the USA by baiting over-extension in the Middle East. War sucks for the people of all nations involved, and an empire in constant war will inevitably brew dissatisfaction and dissent among its people.
I think we were headed to our current state of affairs since Reagan, but the police state status was definitely accelerated by 9/11.
Pretty sure this is beyond what even their wildest dreams imagined could happen. The US has been punching itself bloody for a long time now.
Yep.
9/11 worked.
It did exactly what OBL wanted it to do, it drove us insane, got us to destroy ourselves and our institutions and economy, and collapsed our empire.
Strategic victory achieved.
Very very fucking messy and horrific, but it worked, it achieved its goals.
ISIS referred to this as the attrition of the “Grey Zone” if you want to Google it
His plan worked so well that he died and it’s still going according to plan.
Also helps that his plan also happened to coincide with Russia’s geopolitical plan, and China’s incentives for economic dominance.
yeah that’s that part that shakes my head
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I know it would never happen, but that SHOULD be a career ending move.
Because enough people are racist enough to look the other way. Definitely maybe 30 years ago this would have been career ending, but I always say that the living memory of horrors of fascism is slowly evaporating, so the younger people don’t know well enough not to FAFO if they even entertain fascism at the slightest bit.
Yup. Generational amnesia is going to fuck us all, even people old enough to know better…between nonsense like antivaxxer and fascism and probably a few other things I’m forgetting right now, it’d be nice if there were a great way to download wisdom.
One path for that, one might hope, is education. But that obviously has not worked. Whether that’s by design thanks to the intentional sabotage of the far right and how much of that sentiment is really, really hard to translate to younger minds is hard to say - since younger minds tend to be, as a general rule, extremely narcissistic.
You forgot trickle down economics, hating Russia, WMDs, Romney Care, family values, fiscally conservative, The War on Drugs, interracial marriage, Oxycotin, Watergate, Iran-Contra Scandal, Bush vs Gore, segregation, January 6th, 9/11, Southern Strategy, lynching, Puerto Rico sterilization, McCarthyism, Tuskegee Project, John Birch Society, KKK, Pat Robertson, Birthers, Death Panels, and so much more.
Remember when Howard Dean screamed a little bit too enthusiastically and it ended his career?
I’d never heard that, but there’s a wiki page on it with the scream lol.
“Dean Scream”
“All brown people are terrorists” is probably not the take to pull voters from Mamdani. The racists already weren’t voting for him.
Centrist dems have hated mamdani this whole time. Dont forget about them, they are on the same side as the racists.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/establishment-democrats-fear-zohran/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/establishment-democrats-zohran-mamdani-new-york https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mamdani-rise-completely-obliterates-democrats-181041756.html https://time.com/7331119/zohran-mamdani-billionaires-ackman-bloomberg/
Even if Mamdani does absolutely nothing, I enjoy seeing the pants-shitting apoplectic fits he is giving all of these bitch ass losers.
Andy Ogles (R-TN). plaster the racist piece of shit’s name all over. don’t let them hide.
Why would he hide?
The GOP has been running against the ‘coastal elites’ for decades.
He knows no one in New York has ever heard of him, but he’ll get his base riled up.
The one true thing Cuomo said is that the GOP will use Mamdani as a symbol for the whole Party.
Better symbol than Pelosi
It really doesn’t matter. If they can paint Ronald Reagan as a woke Liberal no one is safe.
The dude was 10 years old when 9/11 happened….
Racist-ass piece of shit.
Isn’t using 9/11 as a political prop offensive to victims of 9/11?
Do fascists even mourn the dead? I saw how they reacted to Kirk, they threw a party to celebrate what comes next.
And they completely drowned out all their 9/11 memorials with mourning Kirk. 2025 was they year they forgor💀
Don’t worry. When they see a Muslim running for office they suddenly remember.
Hope Mamdani wins.
oh boy, I got new for you
ANOTHER republican backing Cuomo. They really are scared shitless of Mamdani aren’t they? And yes, they is both Rs and Ds.
Heres a clip of that same congressman when asked about Palestinians says, “I think we should kill them all”.
He’s a zionist.
As a fellow white man, what the actual fuck is wrong with us?
Money. Money is what’s wrong with us.
Dont lump me in with those idiots because of my failure to make melanin in my skin.
That wasnt my choice and I’d make some if I could.
Using a national tragedy as a racist attack.
How utterly Republican.
Stay classy.
