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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Incredible that American anti-war activists* invented things and said that the US government was doing them and then now we have the US government saying "that's cool and we can** and should do it actually" *lyndon larouche ** this is an advanced tactic known as "lying"

a headline from Le Monde saying "US ambassador's interventions in Greece spark controversy in Bucharest and Athens - According to revelations by the 'Wall Street Journal,' Kimberly Guilfoyle would not hesitate to threaten toppling governments to promote sales of American liquefied natural gas."

"with the Greek energy minister, Stavros Papastavrou. While the WSJ did not specify the reason, the ambassador reportedly mentioned the imminent fall of the Romanian government and said, "We can do that to any country we want. We can do it here." Papastavrou is said to have replied that the US could not replace the democratically elected Greek government. Guilfoyle's lawyer has disputed this"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As it is officially spooky season it is time for a new banner.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But don't you remember? There's no-one as Irish as Barack O'Bama!

The statue of the Obamas outside the Barack Obama Plaza service station in County Tipperary

heavy north korea vibes coming off of this

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so basically I read this section and thought: "huh. the administration of barack obama and the historical memory of it is a bit like that" see also "the west wing"

"If a story is “iddy” or “hits you in the id,” it’s an especially soothing, comforting, self-indulgent story, kind of like what you might imagine before going to sleep. It feels like the story is made for you and activates exactly the kinds of things that make you go wild for fiction. These things can often be sexual but they don’t have to be — things like power or competence fantasies can be very iddy; extremely close, all-consuming, ride-or-die friendships in fiction can be very similar, activating a lot of strong emotions; fiction featuring dramatic plot twists and nests of cunning vipers constantly scheming and backstabbing each other can be very iddy; cozy feel-good reality shows about cooking food or finding the right dress, or repetitive, formulaic mystery serials can be iddy."

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Because Burnham's trying to evoke the legacy of the last non-Thatcherite PM in the worst way possible.

the january 1984 meme but instead it has "the recently installed Labour PM has selected healey as his chancellor of the Exchequer who is demanding deep cuts to satisfy the bond markets and for defence spending" and the other guy rips off the calendar to read "january (really april) 1976"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

say what you like about trans people but their world airline could fucking well so some Design

The TWA Flight Centre at JFK airport in New Yahrk Ciddy, built in 1957. dayumn that some designed by eero saarinen right there

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Our freedoms we hate and our rights we will abstain" - the people of Iowa, apparently

A poster at the Iowa state fair reading "Iowa is trump country - make america great again" next to a picture of trump doing the trump dance and j.d. vance being j.d.
There is a woman looking in confusion at the emblem in the centre reading, ironically "our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's amazing what you can do with MS paint.

"Let the people rejoice!
[The emblem from the flag of Iowa. The eagle holds a banner reading "Our Liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain]
Mr. Elon Musk, of Austin, Texas
To be launched into
FUCKING SPACE
Trillionaire never to be seen again.
THE REPUBLIC REJOICES
A feat of science.
A feat of nature!
TO BE TELEVISED LIVE
Or Seen In Person
At Kennedy Space Centre, Florida
On the 21st of JANUARY, 2027
DO NOT MISS!
Tickets available from Mr. Sherbet's Cabinet of Delight
HAIL! HAIL!
FREEDOM TRIUMPHANT!"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

God damnit, you've convinced me to have a try.

A Victorian poster reading:
"Let the people rejoice!
Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain [held by that eagle from the flag of Iowa]
Mr. Elon Musk, of Austin, Texas
To be launched into
FUCKING SPACE
Trillionaire never to be seen again.
THE REPUBLIC REJOICES!
A feat of science.
A feat of nature!
To be televised live
Or Seen In Person
At Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
On the 21st of JANUARY, 2027
DO NOT MISS!
Tickets available from Mr. Sherbet's Cabinet of Delight
HAIL! HAIL!
Freedom Triumphant!"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This guy just rose from the grave to say "hell the fuck yeah"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Cars should have seatbelts." - Ralph Nader, 1965

Ralph Nader, consumer activist extraordinaire.
If he hadn't run for president in 2000 under the Green Party, then of the fifty thousand votes in Florida that went his way some might've gone to Al Gore.
Al Gore opposed the war in Iraq. So really, what I'm saying is that Ralph Nader did 9/11.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh no solid modernity’s happening again

Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at trading platform IG, said investors were becoming increasingly concerned about the economic impact of higher oil prices.
"It feels like investors worldwide are now waking up to the crisis in oil markets," Beauchamp said. He warned that the surge in energy prices could weigh heavily on the global economy if it continues.
Concerns have also grown after Iran-aligned Houthi forces were reported to have seized Yemen's port of Mokha, a key Red Sea port.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well, the problem here was a wage disparity between North and South. The average farmer in the North earned twice as much as a (white) farmer in the South. Black farmers, of course, didn't get paid anything most of the time. If they were paid fairly, then that would mean the cost of the cotton input

A map of GDP per capita of the USA in 1872. The Northeast, California and Midwest are coated in various shades of orange, signifying the great wealth of the area, however the south is mostly white, meaning it has a gdp per capita of less than $300.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The contrast was much sharper in ye olden days of 1997, before dentistry was brought to these isles.

Tony Blair, a charismatic and handsome politician of 1997, photographed with his terrible, dodgy teeth. Also: arsehole.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Listening to @bloodwork.show is required. @bloodwork.show can be accessed via filling in Form X26-C, which must be written in dark blue ink and block capital letters. Failure to listen to @bloodwork.show will incur a short custodial sentence and a small fine.

The offices of the IRS, Washington D.C., in 1965.
They probably aren't really doing much harm, (except to the butthurt feelings of libertarians, and raising cash to pay for the Vietnam War), but my god it captures The Vibe perfectly.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think Prince invented at least two new genders

you don't have to be beautiful
to turn me on
i just need ya body baby
from dusk till dawn
you don't need experience
to turn me out
you just leave it up to me
to show you what it's all about (would not do that in real life)
you don't have to be rich,
to be my... prince?
you don't have to be cool
to rule my world
ain't no particular sign
i'm more compatible with
i just want more extra time with your
*guitar*
KISS

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Looking forward to the Des Moines U-Bahn

The Marienplatz station on the Munich U-Bahn, 1973.
Taken by Yoichi Okamoto.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your Majesty, a second part of the Empire is demanding autonomy

It's the "Mr. President, a second plane has hit the building" meme, but the secret service agent is speaking to a gigantic Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary, as if to suggest "Your Majesty, a second part of the Empire is demanding autonomy"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm sorry: what Why would you pay $18,000 to got to whatever the hell this is when you can ride Michael Moore's Shaggin' Wagon through the '90s

The Sodomobile, from Michael Moore's TV nation.
There are slogans on the side:
"If the Sodomobile is a-rockin', Don't Come a-Knockin'"
"Sodom is for Lovers"
"Buggery on Board"

"There were long days and long nights of travelling. Often with nothing more than sodomy to pass the time."

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And now America has ICE. Yippee! Also, this happened, and I don't know why.

Senator Frank Church, an immensely serious 56-year old man campaigning for President, against a very '60s curtain, is dressed as Superman *with a cape*.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In 1976, Church set out to do exactly that, by running for President. Only, he started too late, and lost the nomination to the deliberate campaign of centrist Washington outsider Jimmy Carter. Carter also appropriated a great deal of Church's environmentalist rhetoric.

Jimmy Carter for President Democratic Primary - May 18th. Note how the poster is a nice shade of green, which no other politician has been brave enough to use in America. Except Jill Stein.

Frank Church for President.

ehy, you got any more of them pixels?

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

rest of the time. Church's issue was oversight of the American security state and foreign policy. Others included Birch Bayh of Indiana (feminism), Edmund Muskie of Maine (environmentalism), Mike Mansfield of Montana (economic justice) and most of all George McGovern of South Dakota (pacifism.)

The only man qualified to be vice-president. Muskie. (slightly pathetic statement but whatever.)
To be fair his only competition that year was Spiro Agnew (racist fuckhead) and Curtis LeMay, who thought that nuclear war: good actually.

*to the tune of albuquerque by "weird al" yankovic*
Because it's GEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOORGE MCGOVERN
*epic guitar solo*
Because it's GEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOORGE MCGOVERN

The FUCKING GOAT

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today I would like to discuss the rise and fall of Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho, 1957-81. Church was first inspired to get into politics by isolationist Progressive William Borah, who embodied the changing politics of the state, from the Progressivism of days past, which sought to level

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's been a great summer for Manchester.

It's a mock tudor AT-AT, from the acclaimed film Star Wars: Burnham Strikes Back

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Happy Victory over Japan Day! Unfortunately, eighty-one years after the fascist wankers deservedly eating shit, Japan's leadership still haven't got the message, choosing to pray at the War Crimes Shrine. This year, there's a twist - she's in the car park.

Japan's Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, in the car park about 500 metres from Yasukuni Shrine, with a red line displayed over an image of Google Maps to illustrate the distance between the two.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Anything you can act, I can act louder.

Robert Groves, displaying calm, bad acting on the left, and loud Good Acting on the right.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As it turns out, this isn't just a Rowling thing. The desire to make overly broad, frankly racist classifications of countries into civilisations based on vibes is an infectious disease. Can you tell which one is J.K.'s and which one is made by a serious (white) scholar of international relations?

It's the world according to Samuel P. Huntingdon's stupid fucking racist book "The Clash of Civilisations."
There are 9 civilisations: Western, who occupy Europe (up to the Ukrainian and Balkan borders), Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, parts of the Phillipines and North America (north of Galveston.)
- Latin American, exists in the Americas south of Galveston, except the Guianas.
- African, which only goes up as far as the Sahel and the East Coast
- Islamic, which includes most of the world's Muslim majority areas (but not Bosnia)
- Orthodox, which covers South and Eastern Europe, Russia, half the Caucasus and Kazakhstan
- Sinic, which is China, Korea and Vietnam
- Hindu, which is just India
- Buddhist, which occupies Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Mongolia.
- Japanese. Guess where that one is.
All of these are so fucking dumb and make zero sense
unless you are a rushed white boy trying to make a stupid point

It's the world according to J.K. Rowling's stupid fucking racist book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
There are eleven wizarding schools
- Hogwarts, which does the British Isles
- Beauxbatons (?) - which does France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Benelux
- Durmschang - which does Central Europe, the Balkans, the Nordics and Greenland
- Koldovstorets - which covers the former USSR
- Castelobruxo - which services Latin America except the Guyanas and Belize
- Ilvermorny - which does the US, Canada, the Guyanas and Belize
- Mauhutuoko, which does Japan
- Uagadou - which is not the capital of Burkina Faso, but a "wizarding school" for Subsaharan Africa
- Unnamed East Asian Magic School (really fukken creative there), which does China, mainland Southeast Asia and Korea
- Unnamed Middle Eastern Magic School (seriously?) which covers the lands of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent plus the Horn of Africa and the Indian Subcontinent
- Unnamed Oceanian Magic School - (I'm not even going to bother here) which does Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and the Pacific Islands

All of these are so fucking dumb and make zero sense
unless you are a rushed white girl trying to make a stupid point
Plus it maps on almost perfectly to samuel p. huntingdon's map of "civilisations"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are ... are you doing an episode on the famed Russian municipal military dictator? Because I think he's always needed a No Gods, No Mayors episode.

igor girkin, municipal putin of sloviansk-kramatorsk
arsehole

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Only if you possessing the bluesmobile culminates in a sequence such as this, soundtracked by a kickass set of blues, jazz and rock and roll

the bluesmobile breaking the police cordon of Chicago.
"use of unnecesary violence to apprehend the 'blues brothers' has been approved"

a buncha chicago cop cars crashed into each other in a big assed multiple pile up.
Isn't it beautiful

the same pile up from earlier but the cops aren't dead. shame. they've taken the opportunity - rather than going home - to start shooting *using live rounds* at the peaceful walking traffic violation.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

89% of people will believe any statistic if you say it convincingly enough

Two black people look disapprovingly at the camera while "Defund the police: opposed by 70% of voters" appears in bold impact font in the bottom left hand corner.
It's important to mention that they are AI generated, because the man on the right has the face from the John Xina meme, and the one on the left has the sort of emaciated face usually seen in areas stricken by famine. ie. Not Wisconsin.
It's quite possible the statistic was AI-generated as well.

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