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worlddaikokonat · 3 months

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For anyone looking for a new rhythm game and/or a game with canon yuri to play, the game World Dai Star: Yume no Stellarium is currently celebrating it's 0.5th anniversary with a new main story chapter, a festival banner and reruns of previous banners.

World Dai Star is a mixed media theatre girls franchise whose main entries are the anime of the same title and the mobile rhythm game. It features both original songs and cover songs such as Stellar Stellar, Phony, Snow Halation, Ano Natsu ga Houwa Suru, Tokyo Shandy Rendezvous and more.

It's set in a world which had a huge theatre boom in the middle of the 20th century, which resulted in the field of theatre acting becoming so crowded that some people developed mutations which gave them acting superpowers called 'Senses', which can range from increased athletic ability to mind reading to de-aging while on stage. The very best actors are classed as World Dai Stars, with only a small number of people worldwide claiming the title.

The anime follows a girl named Otori Kokona as she joins the theatre troupe 'Sirius' and starts her journey towards becoming a World Dai Star. Kokona has been repeatedly rejected during auditions as they say she lacks a Sense, however she has her best friend Shizuka supporting her in her dreams no matter what. As it turns out though, no one else can see or hear Shizuka. As the show progresses Shizuka becomes visible to others and it's revealed that she's actually Kokona's Sense and although many mysteries remain around her, with her help Kokona's acting starts to shine.

World Dai Star: Yume no Stellarium is a direct sequel to the anime which continues to follow Kokona and the rest of Sirius while introducing three new troupes, Eden, Gingaza and Gekidan Denki.

Eden is a subversive troupe led by the young lesbian genius Renjakuno Hatsumi, which creates unique plays with controversial subject matters and has a dangerous reputation with the more mainstream troupes in the area. Bar Hatsumi, whose Sense allows her to suppress other's Senses, all members of the troupe have Senses which can act as double edged swords.

Gingaza is one of largest and most prestigious theatre companies in Tokyo and scouts for actors internationally. The environment at the beginning of the game is both hyper competitive and unfriendly and the members rarely befriend each other, but that begins to change when Ramona Wolf arrives from Germany.

Gekidan Denki is a troupe which focuses on 2.5D performances such as anime adaptations. They are a relatively easygoing troupe made up of various kinds of otaku and their dedicated fans are very enthusiastic. However, due to changes in the economy of Akibahara the troupe isn't as profitable as it used to be, and the threat of closure is often hovering above their heads. The story starts when a cosplaying anime otaku named Iroha, who quit acting when she was young because she has no Sense, joins the troupe with her best friend Mito.

The rhythm game aspect has been praised for it's three finger Olivier charts and high level of user customisation, which you can see in the linked video and read more about in the English language fan guide. It uses a system called Star Acts for it's scoring system. The team building and score increasing aspects are more in depth than most rhythm games and are considered one of the major draws of the games for people who like meta aspects.

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The card art is always high quality and in particular often has excellent lighting.

The original songs are also highly praised, and the game has many covers like the ones mentioned above and ANIMA, Turing Love, Fleeting Lullaby and Hide and Seek. You can see three different difficulty levels with three different songs in the videos below.

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In addition to the rhythm game section, there are also 3DMVs with customisable cast members and outfits and Photo Spots where you can dress members up and take photos of them in daily life situations. There are also 3DMVs of plays such as The Phantom of the Opera in the game, which have scripts written by a professional playwright.

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For the yuri, there's a lot of potential pairings who openly flirt with each other, but more explicitly Renjakuno Hatsumi is gay and is in an open relationship with Lilja Kurtbay of Gingaza (first pic below). She cruises around town in her car hitting on girls on most days and regularly goes on dates with the girls she picks up. She's hit on most of the girls in the cast at this point and about a third of them like it. Also, the most loved up pair in the game are Senju Iroha and Shiromaru Mito (second pic below), and the official Twitter account of the game liked a post of rainbow flags replying to one of the Iroha/Mito 1komas that they posted.

(There's also this from the anime.)

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Since the 0.5th anniversary banners and events are ongoing it's a good time to start the game, you can download it through QooApp. The game was laggy for Android on release and the reviews reflect that, but the issue was fixed in the first month and it now runs smoothly. All of the main story chapters, all of the key story events and some other events are translated to English, link is below.

#world dai star #rhythm game #yuri #canon yuri #GL #stage girls #theater girls #music game #mobage #mobile game #game recommendation #anime recommendation

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communist-ojou-sama · 5 months

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The Zionist Enemy does not have vast material riches; the Zionist Enemy does not have a large economy or population; the Zionist enemy does not have access to large amounts of land that would facilitate a broad-based industrial economy. The Zionist economy is a brittle, neoliberal economy vulnerable to shocks and reliant on phony asset price inflation, just like the doomed US or UK economies. The Zionist enemy has minimal experience fighting long wars and most of its soldiers are completely unaccustomed to contending with armed enemies. The Zionist enemy, as a matter of ideology, underestimates the capability of Arab enemies and bases their victory on their racial superiority and their capacity to commit terror bombings rather than any ability to maneuver on the field of combat. The Zionist Enemy's very existence is predicated on the notion of extirpating Palestinian resistance and it has bet its credibility on doing so this time around once and for all despite the fact that it is impossible. You do the math on what that means for the Zionist Enemy's future lol.

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hudgenssource · 9 months

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alexandrashipppp: Day 3 of STRIKE! The studios are shutting down streets, putting up phony construction sites and cutting back trees so there’s no shade KNOWING it’s almost unbearably hot! What’s crazy is that we’ve been internally debating residuals and the overwhelming influx of streaming and AI for years now. It’s hard to put it into words, but it’s been a tough road for any actor in this industry. As the economy evolves, as well as cost of living, it’s becoming more and more apparent that our deals need to evolve as well!! We aren’t going to back down. We aren’t going to give up. We support all unions fighting for equality and equal pay. We are powerful. We are @sagaftra.

#Vanessa Hudgens #Rosario Dawson #Alexandra Shipp #SAG Strike #SAG AFTRA #Instagram #Gallery

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Senate hopeful Herschel Walker dared Barack Obama to compare resumes after the former President questioned Mr. Walker’s credentials for leadership, calling him more of a "celebrity" than a politician.

Mr. Obama campaigned for Mr. Walker’s opponent, incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock, on Friday night in Georgia.

During the speech, he called Mr. Walker "a celebrity that wants to be a politician," and noted that being a good football player does not qualify someone to help run the nation.

“In college, [Mr. Walker] was amazing. One of the best running backs of all time," Mr. Obama said. "But here is the question: Does that make him the best person to represent you in the US Senate? Does that make him equipped to weigh in on the critical decisions about our economy and our foreign policy and our future?”

Mr. Obama claimed the candidate had showed little interest actually developing a civics-minded set of skills to prepare for a potential political future.

“There is very little evidence that he has taken any interest, bothered to learn anything about or displayed any kind of inclination towards public service or volunteer work or helping people in anyway,” Mr. Obama said.

The former President also addressed what he called Mr. Walker’s "issues of character" and "habit of not telling the truth." He also referenced a recent gaffe made by Mr. Walker during a recent debate, calling the candidate "someone who carries around a phony badge and says he is in law enforcement like a kid playing cops and robbers."

Mr. Walker responded to the former President’s comments during an appearance on Fox News. Presenter Brian Kilmeade asked Mr. Walker if he had ever met Mr. Obama, and how he felt about the former President’s criticism.

"I never met [Mr. Obama] before, and if I’m a celebrity I would have met him because all he did was hang out with celebrities. He forgot to tell people I created one of the largest minority-owned food service companies in the US, so I do sign the front of a check, which he’s probably never done except when he was in the White House and that Senator [Raphael] Warnock has never done either," Mr. Walker responded.

That’s when he suggested his resume was more impressive than the former President’s.

"So I created businesses, I sit on a publicly traded board, so those are things I’ve done outside of football," Mr. Walker said. "But my resume against his resume I’d put it up any time of the day, and I think I’ve done well. Once of the things I’d say to the people is that [Mr. Obama] is not in Georgia voting."

#us politics #news #president barack obama #2022 #the independent #herschel walker #Sen. Raphael Warnock #georgia #2022 elections #2022 midterms #aaron rupar #twitter #tweet #fox news #brian kilmeade

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mariacallous · 1 year

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After twelve grinding months, China appears no more capable of influencing the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine than it was at the conflict’s inception. Largely reduced to spectator status, Beijing’s primary role has been to provide Moscow with a financial lifeline by ramping up purchases of heavily discounted Russian crude oil and coal, while reaping an unexpected windfall from surging exports to Russia. But these and other Chinese half-measures appear aimed, for now, at ensuring Russia has what it needs to sustain its wartime economy—not actually win the war.

In a similar twist, China’s 12-point peace plan for Ukraine is not geared toward restoring peace in Europe. Indeed, China’s dead-on-arrival missive has little to do with ending the war in Ukraine and everything to do with setting the conditions to win a future war over Taiwan. Put differently, China recognizes the causes of Russia’s failure in Ukraine are the same that threaten its eventual reunification plans.

Read correctly, China’s phony peace proposal could also serve as the basis for a Western-led roadmap to prevent an Indo-Pacific war from breaking out in the first place.

Clearly, Beijing’s position paper, titled “The Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis,” reflects China’s concerns about current battlefield conditions in Europe. To date, transatlantic resolve to support Ukraine remains more or less resolute, even as Western democracies grapple with absorbing the costs associated with being cut off from Russian energy and other raw materials. Even though more Russian soldiers have perished in Ukraine than during all Russian wars combined since World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin remains entirely too confident he can still defeat Ukraine and altogether too stubborn to change course. Meanwhile, China continues to vacillate in providing lethal assistance to Russia, a decision made more complicated now that Washington has leaked details on Beijing’s internal deliberations.

No doubt, Chinese leader Xi Jinping appears powerless to pull Putin back from the brink—not that Xi has demonstrated any inclination to do so. At the same time, China’s refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion has ravaged its credibility across Europe, including in countries such as Austria, Poland, and Croatia, where Beijing has historically enjoyed positive relations. And China’s sunk costs are not purely reputational but increasingly economic. With the war weighing on global growth, debt defaults in the developing world loom, with Beijing holding many of those loans. Economic uncertainty also threatens to depress worldwide demand for Chinese exports just as Beijing’s attempts to stimulate domestic consumer spending—the key to re-igniting China’s recovery and revamping the country’s broken growth model—have fallen flat.

Cue Beijing’s peace plan, both a masterstroke at misdirection as well as a not-so-subtle admission that Western unity, sanctions, supply chain instability, and potential grain disruption could derail China’s Indo-Pacific revisionism.

Sure, China’s diplomatic gambit was immediately disavowed as a viable path to peace in Ukraine in Washington, Brussels, Kyiv, and elsewhere. But read more carefully, Beijing’s proposal lays bare the rhetorical and legal scaffolding it intends to erect if and when Xi decides to forcefully retake Taiwan. If last August’s marathon of military maneuvers around the island revealed the attack vectors China likely intends to prosecute during an all-out amphibious assault on Taiwan, the laundry list of conditions embodied in the peace plan reveals how China intends to complicate Western attempts to replicate the Ukraine playbook during a future contingency.

Central to China’s peace plan are demands that Western countries abandon their “Cold War mentality” and avoid “bloc confrontation”—phrases that are code for NATO’s alliance system and Beijing’s belief that Kyiv should not receive any additional Western military assistance. China’s crack at military de-escalation masks its real motive: It would like Russia to prevail over Ukraine in the absence of continued U.S. and European support. That same preferred balance of power applies in a Taiwan contingency, too. In a head-to-head match-up between China and Taiwan, China wins handily. If Taiwan, like Ukraine, can draw on extended external military equipment, training, and real-time intelligence support, all bets are off. And so, Beijing remains focused on degrading the ability of international actors to inject strategic risk into Chinese decision-making, as well as on exploiting cleavages among U.S. allies.

Just as glaring is the plan’s outright rejection of unilateral sanctions, which China views as violating international law. Instead, China prefers measures be debated multilaterally by the U.N. Security Council, where Beijing and Moscow wield vetoes. Undoubtedly, the U.S. and European Union-led sanctions regime on Russia has exacerbated Beijing’s dread that it, too, could someday be economically hobbled. But whereas Russia turned to economically more powerful China for support, Beijing would largely be on its own if the situation were reversed. That stark realization undergirds China’s intensifying self-sufficiency push, which is aimed at sanctions-proofing its economy. Those measures include establishing a yuan-based commodities trading scheme and developing the Cross-Border Interbank Payments System, augmented by the digital yuan, to enable sanctioned entities to dodge SWIFT, the Western-controlled global payments network.

That same fear of sanctions factors into the plan’s push to “keep industrial and supply chains stable.” The timidity of Chinese firms—large and small, state-backed and ostensibly private—to cross the sanctions threshold suggests China’s campaign to inoculate itself from Western export controls remains a work very much in progress. Case in point: China’s meek response to U.S. semiconductor restrictions. Inflicting proportionate pain on the United States, Beijing worries, could be self-defeating given China’s dependence on Western markets and technology. Russia clearly fell victim to a similar vulnerability gap. In binding itself to global value chains in ways that Russia never could, Beijing hopes to exercise leverage over Western deliberations regarding Taiwan, rather than the other way around.

The plan has two final priorities: “ceasing hostilities” and “respecting the sovereignty of all countries.” The former reflects Beijing’s understanding that Russian casualty counts are unsustainable and that Moscow must regroup its forces. As for the latter, China has struggled to rationalize how Russia’s breach of Ukraine’s borders does not infringe upon Kyiv’s sovereignty. But that is largely irrelevant to Beijing’s situation, since China believes Taiwan enjoys neither borders nor sovereignty. And, at least as far as international law is concerned, China’s supposition stands strong. Taiwan’s arbitrary exclusion from the U.N. system, Western adherence to the “one-China” myth, and Taipei’s dwindling recognition network ensure that, unlike Ukraine, Taiwan’s international legal recourse could be limited following an invasion.

All told, Beijing rightly understands that any plan to retake Taiwan—or at least any plan that carries the least risk—is predicated upon manifesting and subsequently sustaining the 12 conditions found in its Ukraine peace plan. In recent years, Washington has made tremendous strides strengthening its alliance network in the Indo-Pacific, as well as better aligning and boosting regional partner capability. Efforts are also underway to undercut China’s supply chain dominance in certain sectors, as well as to dent Beijing’s ability to leverage its grip on critical minerals to advance its foreign policy objectives.

But to undermine China’s other strategic pillars, much work remains. The top priority is for Western countries, led by the United States, to accelerate the difficult task of defining and telegraphing plans to institute a robust sanctions regime with automatic triggers should China mobilize its forces for an invasion or proceed with one. Democracies must also selectively deepen their trade and industrial ties to Taiwan, in effect reducing Taiwan’s economic reliance on China, while also wielding their influence to bolster Taiwan’s legal participation in international organizations. Last, and most controversially, Western nations must consider weaponizing China’s core vulnerability—and one of its other peace plan principles—by threatening to target its heavy reliance on foreign countries for food, arguably the commodity most tied to China’s political stability and most likely to seed doubt into Xi’s invasion calculus.

As Putin learned the hard way, waging a war on faulty assumptions can mean the difference between victory and stalemate. Undermining Xi’s assumptions regarding a potential showdown over Taiwan may just be the best way to avoid one altogether.

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nyantria · 2 years

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大リセットは本質的に「覇権のリセット」つまり多極化である。「いや違う。大リセットは、世界中の国家主権が剥奪されて世界政府（国連など）に一本化される世界体制のリセットだよ」という人がいるかもしれない。確かに国権剥奪の世界政府化は、コロナのパンデミック条約などで推進されつつある。だが、私から見ると、世界政府化は「失敗させるためにやっていること」だ。世界政府の構想は、米欧諸国を自滅させた挙げ句に失敗する。非米諸国は影響を受けない。大リセットは全体的に、未必の故意的に失敗させることによって本来の目的を達成する策略である。（World Health Organization treaty is an attack on national sovereignty, part of a ‘global coup’）（英米覇権の一部である科学の権威をコロナや温暖化で自滅させる）

国連や国際エスタブ筋が「全ての政府から国家主権を剥奪して国連など世界政府に権力を集中させるのだ」と宣言してそれを進めようとするほど、米欧諸国では国権剥奪に猛反対する右派ポピュリズムなナショナリズムの政治運動が強まり、国権の放棄を了承していた中道エリートが選挙などで権力を喪失し、国権剥奪を拒否する右派政府に替わっていく（米欧の左派は間抜けにも世界政府に反対しない）。中国BRICSなど非米諸国は独裁や権威主義政府だから、世界政府良いですねと表向き賛成しつつ国権は放棄しない。世界政府は作られても名ばかりで失敗する。失敗するが、その過程で米欧のエリート支配が崩壊して米国覇権も低下し、その一方で非米諸国は何も変わらないので米欧を押しのけて台頭し、結果的に多極化が進む。（世界の国権を剥奪するコロナ新条約）

大リセットは、次々と新たなテーマを追加・包含していく。WEFが新テーマ包含を宣言しなくても、話の流れを見ていると大リセット的だと思われる「大リセット系」の話が次々と出てくる。たとえば最近アイルランド政府は、ウクライナ戦争による対露経済制裁でロシアからの石油ガス輸入が減り、温暖化対策として石油ガス利用を減らす必要も込めて、エネルギー消費を減らす目的で、人々に在宅勤務を強要するなど、コロナのときのような都市閉鎖（ロックダウン）を行うかもしれないと表明した。何でも良いから理由をつけてコロナ時のような都市閉鎖を再開して米欧経済を自滅させるのが大リセット的だ。ウクライナ戦争自体は大リセットに含まれていないが、ウクライナ戦争を理由とした対露制裁は、石油ガスや穀物など資源類の高騰と不足を引き起こし、その対策が大リセット的である。（Great Reset: State Planning Harsh COVID-Style Lockdown in Event of Fuel Shortage – Leak）

ビル・ゲイツは「次のパンデミックは地球温暖化によって引き起こされる。もしくはテロリストがパンデミックを発生させる」と言っている。温暖化問題や、一つ前の諜報界の謀略だった「テロ戦争」と、パンデミックを都合よくつなげてしまうこういう言い方も大リセット的だ。ゲイツは最近「サル痘」の発生時期を「当てた」ことでも知られている。ゲイツをめぐるこれらの事象を見た人（軽信者以外の人）は「ゲイツこそパンデミックを起こしてるテロリストじゃないか」と思ってしまう。ゲイツはパンデミック大王のように言われているが、大リセットの一つであるパンデミックを使った支配強化の構図が崩壊していくほど、ゲイツは「パンデミック・ピエロ」にされる。私から見ると、彼はピエロにされるシナリオに前からはめこまれている。（There is zero chance that this new monkeypox occurred naturally”）（Bill Gates: Next Pandemic Likely To Be Caused By Climate Change）

国家より上位だった「大王」が、いつの間にかピエロにされていく大リセット系の配役としては、温暖化問題のグレタ・トゥーンベリや、ウクライナのゼレンスキー大統領もいる。トゥーンベリは米欧諸国に、経済自滅や国民生活破綻の過激な温暖化対策をやれと高圧的に「命じる」役回りで、マスコミ（や左翼）がトゥーンベリをもてはやして権威を大膨張させた。彼女の背後には入れ知恵役の大人たちがいて、それらは英国などの諜報筋だ。トゥーンベリは諜報界の傀儡だ。彼女は米欧だけを激しく攻撃する半面、中国の批判は全くしなかった。米欧を経済的に自滅させて米国覇権体制を崩壊させ、中国など非米側を相対的に台頭させる多極主義の手口が見えている。（Why Greta's Climate Panic Failed）

その後ウクライナが開戦し、欧米が対露制裁で石油ガス石炭をあきらめねばならなくなると、自然エネルギーだけでは経済破綻することが確実になり、トゥーンベリの主張は無視されるようになった。替わって、米国の傀儡として欧州に「ロシアからの石油ガス石炭の輸入を止めろ。欧州が経済的に自滅しても構わないからロシアを潰せ」と虎の威を借る狐的に圧力をかけているのがゼレンスキーだ。だが、ロシアがウクライナ東部を着々と支配していき、ウクライナ軍はもう勝てないと米元高官も認める最近は、独仏がゼレンスキーに対してロシアに譲歩して和解しろと逆に加圧する状態になっている。（Here's the truth on Ukraine, as far as I can tell）（Zelensky Vows "Full De-Occupation Of Entire Territory" After Macron's 'Don't Humiliate Russia' Remarks）

大リセット系の動きは、米欧の覇権を自滅させる隠れ多極主義的な動きだ。米欧の人々にとっては、人権や生活を侵害され、暮らしを悪化させられる嫌がらせの策である。米欧の国民経済を悪化・破綻させることで、米欧の経済力を自滅させ、覇権転換・多極化を引き起こすのが大リセットの役割だ。地球温暖化やパンデミックによる死者急増、ロシアを野放しにすることなどを容認するよりは、人権侵害になっても化石燃料の使用減や都市閉鎖や肉を食べることの禁止などをやった方がましだという歪曲的な理屈で、人権侵害が許容されている。（World Economic Forum Urges People To Eat Seaweed, Algae, & Cacti To Save The Planet）

米国ではバイデン政権の米政府が大リセット的な色彩を強めている。米国では物価高騰や物不足がひどくなっているが、それらは「地球温暖化対策として炭素の排出を減らすために必要な過渡期の『良いこと』である」という言い方をバイデン政権や民主党議員たちが発している。ガソリンの値上がりは、人々が自動車に乗らなくなって温暖化対策として化石燃料の消費を減らすから良いことなんだとか、電力不足で停電になるのも発電量が減って温暖化対策になるので好ましいとか、米民主党は大リセット的な言説を流布している。対照的に共和党の人々（ロン・ポールなど）は「温暖化防止とかコロナ対策とか、インチキな安全と引き換えに権利を放棄すべきでない」ときっちり言っており、共和党の右派ポピュリストの方が状況をきちんと把握している。（Biden's "Incredible Transition": High Gas Prices, Supply Shortages Part Of Plan To Unleash Green Economy）（Ron Paul: Don't Trade Real Liberty For Phony Security）

大リセットの被害にあわないようにすることの第一歩は、大リセットのインチキに気づくことだ。その点でいうと、日本は例外的な道をたどっている。日本人のほとんどは大リセットのインチキに気づいていない軽信者だが、同時に現実主義でもあるので、自滅になるガチな都市閉鎖や化石燃料の徹底不使用はやっていない。日本はそこが良い（ワクチンは義務でないが、大半の人が連打しており、自業自得の自然免疫破壊をやっている）。日本はやはり、欧米や中国と別の孤立文明だ。早くG7を脱退して孤立して楽になった方が良い。（ドイツの失敗）

大リセット系の嫌がらせは、米国側の先進諸国の人々が受け入れている限りずっと続く。下手をすると、あと25年ぐらい続きかねない。人々が温暖化やパンデミックなど大リセットのインチキを見破って政治的に拒否するようになると、大リセットは「失敗」という完成段階に近づいていく。米国は、共和党が大リセットを拒否しているので半分完成している。この状態は、２大政党が前代未聞に本格敵対して米国を分裂させて覇権運営どころでなくなるという、覇権崩壊・多極化につながる。非米側では、中国で都市閉鎖が習近平の権力を維持強化するために使われているなど、米国側と違って大リセットが国力の自滅になっていない。対露制裁はロシアを強化している。（Biden wants to get out more, seething that his standing is now worse than Trump’s）（The President’s Policy is Dangerous: What Does Joe Biden Believe He is Doing in Ukraine?）

米国は、これまで傀儡化してきたゼレンスキーのウクライナ政府を見捨てる覇権放棄をやりつつある。すでに、ウクライナ軍と米軍の齟齬が拡大している。米世論調査によると、米国民の半分がバイデン政権の対ウクライナ政策を失敗と考えて支持していない。今後ますます不支持が増える。米国民にとっては、ウクライナよりも、インフレなどの生活苦や、犯罪増加や逆差別（大リセットの一部である米民主党のインチキな覚醒運動）など社会不安の方がずっと深刻だ。今秋の中間選挙で共和党が議会多数派になると、米国はますますウクライナ戦争支援やロシア敵視に消極的になる。ウクライナは米国から見放されていく。対米従属していたドイツなど欧州ははしごを外されていく。自業自得だ。（‘Failure of leadership’ American public ready to abandon Ukraine as trust in Biden plunges）（Ukraine keeps US in the dark on military operations）

ゼレンスキーのウクライナは今後、米国から見放されるだけでなく、国際的にしだいに「悪者」にされていく。ロシアとトルコは、世界的な穀倉地帯であるウクライナから、小麦など穀物を黒海経由で船舶で中東アフリカなど食料難の地域に輸出する計画を、国連とともに開始している。ロシアはすでにマリウポリの港をウクライナから奪い、ウクライナ軍が米国の指示でマリウポリ港に設置した12000個の機雷を露軍が除去して港湾を再開し、ウクライナ東部の春小麦などの穀物を黒海経由で中東アフリカなどに輸出し始めている。ロシアは穀物を奪っているのでなく、ウクライナの農民や穀物会社による輸出を助けている。（Turkey, Russia Agree To De-Mining Operation In Ukrainian Ports To Erect 'Grain Corridor'）（Russian top brass confirms Mariupol seaport cleared of mines and back in business）

露トルコはウクライナ側に働きかけ、もう一つのウクライナ黒海岸の港であるオデッサ港も機雷除去して穀物の輸出を始めようしている。だがゼレンスキーのウクライナ政府は、オデッサ港の機雷を除去すると露軍が海から侵攻してきかねないと言って港湾再開を拒否している。ゼレンスキーは、世界的な食糧難を緩和するのを妨害している「悪い奴」だという話になり始めている。こうした善悪転換の動きも「大リセットの結末」系の話だ。（Turkey Calls On Ukraine To Cooperate With Russian 'Grain Corridor' Plan To Unblock Ports）

ひどくなる大リセット系の嫌がらせ

2022年6月9日　　田中　宇

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Even if You Hate Trump...

This post is not just for Trump fans because even if you hate Trump you have to admit he’s still winning people over. Cue up: The increase in Trump’s base of supporters since the FBI’s illegal raid on Mar-a-Lago. And in the spirit of arrogance, the demon seed of Dick Cheney (Liz – Miss Piggy – Cheney) has entered her second stage of grief over her shellacking in Wyoming by blaming ‘Very Sick Republicans’ for her loss. Boy, talk about a sore loser. And she’s still hell bent on stopping Trump at any cost. Ironically (or NOT) cretins like the Cheney family are making Trump look good by comparison to the O’Biden regime. So, Even if You Hate Trump Consider these examples of what’s been done – by the O’Biden Regime – since Trump left office: They’ve let in 2 million illegals since O’Biden took over. Given Ukraine nearly $100 BILLION because their border is more important than ours. Tried to start WW3 with Russia and China. And still trying because the O’Biden adolescents still think they can win a nuclear war. Allowed inflation to run rampant. Increased gas prices by several dollars while forbidding drilling around the country. Selling millions of barrels of strategic reserves to China. Passed mind-boggling spending bills for Trillions of dollars to push a phony green agenda and a looter’s paradise. And the 5 Trillion spent so far doesn’t include the $700 Billion for the egregious Inflation Reduction Act. Promoted crime through George Soros’ Defense Attorneys all over the country. Locked up political prisoners for over 1 ½ years * who only went a DC rally… * Note, they didn’t destroy billions of dollars of property like Antifa/BLM did but are STILL INCARCERATED. Weaponized all intelligence agencies, the DoJ, FBI, And the IRS…making the old Soviet Union look like pikers. Left more than $7 Billion in military equipment to the Taliban…this week marks the one-year anniversary of that disaster/embarrassment that NO ONE is talking about. Shall I go on? In the meantime, crying losers like Cheney can’t seem to understand the damage they’ve done. But the good news is this confirms our belief that the good guys win in the long run. READ: Manipulating the World Economy Ultimately Fails May 21, 2020. And in the process, learn how to prosper AND thrive in these Turbulent Times (HERE). Share this with a friend…Even if you hate Trump. They’ll thank YOU later. We’re Not Just About Finance. But we use finance to give you hope. FYI ************************************* Invest with confidence. Sincerely, James Vincent The Reverend of Finance Copyright © 2022 It's Not Just About Finance, LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Read the full article

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Uebert Angel – Man of Gold or Man of God with double identity?

In different meetings with undercover reporters who identified themselves as Chinese criminals seeking to wash dirty money through the Zimbabwean economy, waxing lyrical, self-styled prophet and Zimbabwe government official, Uebert Angel who was caught on hidden cameras in the Al Jazeera investigation named ‘Gold Mafia’ assured them, they were in safe hands because unofficially, he is the number two man in Zimbabwe and has the full blessings of the president to sign agreements on behalf of Zimbabwe.

When they told him they wanted to launder over a billion dollars, Angel told them he has laundered several millions before, but never done billions, however, he could launder their billions, with his diplomatic red tape and the money would be delivered directly to his home and nobody would touch it.

He also assured them that they would have no problem at all freely buying and selling gold from Zimbabwe in the money laundering schemes.

The 40-something-year-old flamboyant British-Zimbabwean has always had controversies around him. Born Uebert Mudzanire, he lived in the UK before moving back to Harare to establish the headquarters of his church, Spirit Embassy.

Double ID cards

When in March 2021 he was appointed Presidential Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, issues came up in the news about his double identity.

News sources in Zimbabwe dug out his two national ID cards. The first ID card has the registration number 83-099297X83, and was reported to have been issued at the Zaka registry offices in Masvingo in 1996. The second card with the registration number 29-195587H83, was said to have been issued in Gweru in the Midlands a year later.

The date of birth on both cards is the same, September 6, 1978, but the card numbers are different.

The report indicated that he used the 1997 ID to secure a Zimbabwean passport with the number ZE 306043.

However, the news reports pointed out that his British passport, number 464932598 which was issued on November 6, 2009, had a different date of birth from the one on his Zimbabwe national ID cards. The British passport has March 4, 1972 as his date of birth.

The reports further said on March 9, 2021, he appeared before a Harare lawyer, Tichavona Mutebere, and made an application to change his name from Uebert Mudzanire to Uebert Angel Snr claiming he was born on September 6, 1978, a birth date inconsistent with his British one but consistent with his two Zimbabwean national IDs.

Interestingly, Angel’s biological brother, Samson Mudzanire, with national ID number 83-066977R83, was born on April 14, 1972. The reports are wondering how his mother, Rose Mudzanire, gave birth to two sons in 1972 within 40 days of each other.

Fake degree

In 2008 the US government published a list containing thousands of names of people who have obtained fake degrees, from Bachelor to PhD degrees from a diploma mill in Spokane, Washington State.

The United States Department of Justice through Operation Gold Seal published the list of fake degrees bought from the phony Saint Regis University, which was eventually shut down.

On the list is the name Uebert Mudzanire and beside it is listed BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration), but Angel has denied buying a fake degree.

On that list were hundreds of people working in the military, government and education sector of the US, and almost 10,000 people who spent $7.3 million buying phony and counterfeit high school and college degrees from the Spokane-based diploma mill.

According to the website spokesman.com that published the list, it included prominent American citizens working for sensitive government agencies. The list it reported included NASA employee Timothy Francis Gorman, who bought an electrical engineering degree using his e-mail account at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to correspond with the diploma mill, and US Department of Health oncology expert Frank S. Govern, who purchased a doctorate in health care administration.

National Security Agency employees David W. Barden and Barry A. Hester both bought degrees. Hester, who was a computer Web trainer and designer for the NSA with top-secret clearance, paid $1,187 for an information systems and technology degree, the list shows.

Eric Gregory Cole, who was a contract employee for the Central Intelligence Agency, paid $3,801 for a degree in information systems management. His top-secret clearance at the CIA was revoked late last 2007, months after his name was forwarded to the Office of Inspector General, according to one source, the report said.

Eight people who set up and operated the diploma mill, including ringleader Dixie Ellen Randock, were indicted and convicted of federal crimes. Randock, a 58-year-old high school dropout, was sentenced to three years in prison, according to the report.

The World Bank overview of Zimbabwe

In its overview of Zimbabwe last updated on March 30, 2023, the World Bank notes that Zimbabwe has strong foundations for accelerating future economic growth and improving living standards.

The Bank admits that the economy has excellent human capital, comparable to that of upper-middle-income economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, although some skill shortages are emerging in some sectors. It also notes that, Zimbabwe possesses abundant mineral and natural resources that, if well managed, can support the country’s development objectives.

The Bank however states that Zimbabwe’s economic development continues to be hampered by price and exchange rate instability, misallocation of productive resources, high informality, low investment, and limited structural transformation. Economic growth has been volatile over the past decade. High inflation, multiple exchange rates, and unsustainable debt levels have increased the cost of production, reduced incentives for productivity-enhancing investment, and encouraged informality.

The Bank adds that high unsustainable debt and arrears to international financial institutions (IFIs) limit Zimbabwe’s growth potential.

It indicates that real GDP growth is estimated to have slowed to 3.4% in 2022 from 8.5% in 2021 on the back of worsening agriculture conditions and macroeconomic instability. Due to low rainfall, agricultural output contracted by 14%, after growing at double digits in 2021. Triple-digit inflation constrained private sector demand, while fiscal austerity limited growth of government demand and investment. Among other things the Bank points out that mineral exporters benefited from high global prices and, together with tourism, contributed the most to overall economic growth.

“Inflation returned to triple digits, albeit declining since August 2022, fueled by broad money expansion and a surge in global prices. The war in Ukraine, through high food and energy prices, has exacerbated domestic inflationary pressures that emanated from loose monetary policy and quasi-fiscal operations. Annual inflation returned to triple digits in May 2022 and reached 244% in December 2022. However, monetary tightening, including sharp hikes in interest rates, and fiscal policy measures brought inflation down to 230% in January 2023. Despite still high inflation, the Central Bank reduced the interest rate from 200% per annum to 150% in February 2023,” the Bank said.

The Gold Mafia

The Gold Mafia undercover investigation by the AL Jazeera Investigative Unit, shows how deeply the ruling elite in Zimbabwe, working with money launderers, are destroying state institutions, and personally benefitting from the country’s natural resources.

So far two episodes of the four-part investigation have been released, two more to be released in the coming weeks.

#breaking news #ghana #business news #ghana news

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the-happy-man · 1 year

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The problem today as seen by the Fed is that regular Americans have too much money.

#the parasite one percent #we eat you because we are full #phony economy #federal reserve

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smartbillsempire6 · 20 days

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How Really does Fake Money Influence The Economy And Society?

It is notable that cash is the main thing that prompts the endurance of a person. Be that as it may, imagine a scenario where the cash you are holding in your pocket is phony. We have all caught wind of two most famous terms that are connected with cash, for example counterfeit cash and fake cash.

Both are very comparative yet toward the end, the main end accompanies this-it is a major wrongdoing in our general public. Starting from the production of cash, there have been individuals who have attempted to exploit the framework by making their own fake renditions. As a matter of fact, when metal cash or coins were in the stream, forging was executed by blending base metals, which are tin, copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, and iron - with gold and silver, the main two metals which were to a great extent used to make old groups. This pattern has become more refined when the paper money has shown up. Aside from security, it has been likewise seen that phony cash represents a colossal financial issue.

Its effect on broad wrongdoing in the public eye is serious as increasingly more taught jobless youth are drawn in towards the fake racket. Because of this, it has turned into a gigantic issue all over the planet. In this digitalized world, we as a whole realize that the pattern of credit only exchanges has been expanding, yet, number of organizations and people are more probable than any time in recent memory to lose cash because of unexpected ownership of fake bills. The presence and utilization of fake cash in the market(s) can influence the economy. The most exceedingly awful thing can happen to any country. For an unmistakable comprehension, here a portion of the focuses are referenced which depicts the fake impacts on the economy-

Dark Showcasing

One more famous term related with the fake cash is dark advertising. The underground market is the 'market' where labor and products are sold in a manner that is unlawful or for labor and products that are unlawful. One more contention against illicit businesses is that on the grounds that their members don't settle charges, which leads to a heavier taxation rate falls on reputable residents.

Loss of Public Certainty

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realhankmccoy · 28 days

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dear kids here's a lesson

if you want to dehumanise others into suckin yr dick or fucking yr ass or this or that

listen it's all basically passive 'service me' behaviour ok

i mean i've had everyone including Babybruce and Babycuck looking to make me into what is known as

a service top

they don't necessarily see it that way because they may be picky about whether my tongue is licking their dick or my tongue is licking their ass

but outside of the phony world of 'alphas and faggots' that a bunch of quasi-incels have concocted online

there is a real world

and in the real world, there are the people who want to do the work of sex -- labour and tops -- a service top

and a bossy entitled bottom

now, it's not a good look to be an entitled bossy baby bottom like Babycuck or Babybruce

however much they've fooled themselves into thinking wanted to be serviced is alpha

it's just a lie because if my tongue were on their other side they'd freak out

what they want is to be SERVICED

a top doesn't want to be serviced

so, you have to figure it out mmmmkay

nobody's sayng you can't be a bottom who wants to be serviced on yr feet your asshole your anything but make no mistake

if you expect to just

KICK BACK RELAX AND LET THE TOP DO THE WORK OF PLEASING YOU

you are a bottom no matter which part of you is being serviced

and from my perspective, society is made up of wayy wya wayyyy too many bottoms

the USA is a service economy

everybody expets me to service them

and make no mistake there is no way i'm ever asking anyone to be serviced

but you know, just for once -- just for fucking once -- some top energy in the sack with me who's not a 65 yr old molestor (that guy in florida Dave from Wendy's really was uh not my type)

you know what i'm saying kids

i mean it happens on occasion

the ginger from Minneapolis was a top and i was smitten

bottom is a-ok

i just

the whole point of this is just a reminder that i have never seen Babybruce and Babycuck in the ways they see themselves because i have real life experience in bed

i think of them as Christcucks looking for a service top to service them and they'd expect like christian purity not a drop spilled if you had sex with them it'd be really gross and awkward

so i mean

the point is do the work, learn the work to please somebody

you have it all confused because you're living in too many online constructs and read too many stories about A FAGGOT SUCTH A DICKTH A REAL MAN EAT AN ASSHOLE

like you're so confused kids

there is active activity

and there is passive activity in america

whether they're licking the front or the back of you doesn't change who's on active duty and who's being babied

#babycuck #babybruce

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Trump to Newsmax: Voters Want My 'Fight'

With the Republican presidential primary behind him, former President Donald Trump said he vows to take a tough fight to his critics, political persecutors, and justice weaponizers in the Biden administration and the Democratic Party.

"I will always be nice; I will always be respectful; but when they hit you, you have to hit them back, and then people will say, Oh gee, Trump isn't a nice guy, because he hit back hard," Trump told "Greg Kelly Reports" in an exclusive sit-down Wednesday with Newsmax.

"They say, Trump isn't a nice person, but they do like my policy."

Trump rattled off his administration's achieves in contrast to the Biden administration's failures, including: "safest border," "greatest economy," "greatest regulation cuts," "rebuilt the military," "created Space Force," and "right to try."

But, Kelly asked, will all of that matter to the backers of President Joe Biden or the moderates that just do not like Trump's tone?

"I don't want to be phony," Trump said. "In a certain way, you could say, Well, are you willing to really change and be a phony? I see it all the time where people are not being themselves.

"I have to fight back. These people, many of them are evil people."

Pointing to the investigations and prosecutions he is facing amid a presidential election challenge to Biden, Trump called out the "sick" and "evil" people he said are targeting him because he seeks to defeat Biden and leftist policies to change America.

"I think they're actually, many of them, are sick people," Trump continued to Kelly in a live-to-tape interview that took more than 26 minutes and was edited for broadcast.

"You know, I talk about the danger we have from the outside, but I also talk about the danger from within. These people, many of them, you know, they make up false stories like Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. That was a hoax. That was a long — it took me two years to get rid of that thing."

Those battles have only made him strong as a campaigning, debater, politician, and president, according to Trump.

"If I didn't fight that with power and strength, if I was going to be some kind of, Oh gee, let's all get together," he said, "these are evil people; these are sick people. And they actually put our nation in a lot of danger, because when you do that stuff, you really are in danger with Russia or whoever it is."

It is the "fight" that makes America great again, Trump said.

"If I didn't fight tough, if I didn't fight nasty and do it the way that I have to do it, I wouldn't be interviewed right now — unless you were doing maybe a story on real estate or something, and I'm sure that probably wouldn't happen," Trump told Kelly.

"No, I have to do it strong."

Special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the indictments in Washington, D.C., and South Florida is "a deranged individual" and Biden's attack weapon, Trump concluded.

"He was told to do a number on me because they think that's the way Biden gets elected," Trump said. "This has never happened in this country before, if I was going to fight it in a nice way, I don't think I'd be successful."

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Dave Strider, Karkat Vantas, Dirk Strider

Meat, page 2

DAVE: bro

DAVE: bro you have got to check this out

KARKAT: NOT NOW DAVE. JAKE’S ASS IS ON TV AGAIN.

DAVE: stop ogling jakes ass this is important

KARKAT: WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHOSE ASS I SHOULD STOP OGLING.

KARKAT: LOOK. IT’S ABSOLUTELY HYPNOTIC.

KARKAT: I MEAN, NOT IN A SEXUAL WAY, PER SE.

DAVE: of course

KARKAT: IT’S ALL IN THE WAY IT’S BEING PROGRAMMED BY THE STATION.

KARKAT: IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO NOTICE, BECAUSE IT’S NOT LIKE I MAKE IT A POINT OF STAYING GLUED TO THIS PHONY TELEVISED HUMAN GLADIATOR GARBAGE.

KARKAT: IT’S SOFT AS FUCK. THEY BARELY EVEN TRY TO MAKE IT SEEM REAL. DAVE, I CONSIDER MYSELF A COSMOPOLITAN INDIVIDUAL. A MAN OF LEARNING? BUT AS A NATIVE ALTERNIAN, I’M ACTUALLY FUCKING OFFENDED BY THIS INSULTING DISPLAY OF NAMBY PAMBY PAGEANTRY.

KARKAT: ANYWAY, THE MORE I WATCH, I CAN’T HELP BUT NOTICE THE CAMERA’S LECHEROUS FIXATION ON THIS BOY’S VOLUPTUOUS POSTERIOR.

KARKAT: CAN’T SAY I BLAME THEM, I GUESS??? AT LEAST IT SHOWS THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S PAYING THE FUCKING BILLS, BECAUSE IT SURE AS HELL ISN’T THE QUALITY OF THE SLAM POETRY.

DAVE: ok who gives a shit about that

DAVE: although it pleases me to hear you taking note of the economics of this broadcast since it is apropos to the topic at hand but more on that later

KARKAT: APROPOS TO FUCKING WHAT?

KARKAT: I DON’T HAVE TIME TO “SCOPE THE LATEST MEME,” DAVE. YOU ARE COMING PERILOUSLY CLOSE TO CUTTING INTO MY IMPORTANT LEISURE TIME AS IT IS.

DAVE: leisure time

DAVE: this is all you ever do all day

DAVE: also its not a meme its much more important

KARKAT: OH, EXCUSE ME, HOT SHOT. BUT WHAT POSSIBLY COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE LATEST MEME?

KARKAT: THAT WAS A JOKE, FYI. NOW LEAVE.

DAVE: jane is running for president

KARKAT: WHAT THE FUCK?

DAVE: got the announcement right here

KARKAT: YOU MEAN PRESIDENT OF EARTH?

DAVE: yeah

KARKAT: WHY THE FUCK WOULD SHE WANT TO DO THAT?

DAVE: i dunno crocker is just an ambitious woman i guess

KARKAT: THIS SOUNDS FUCKING AWFUL.

DAVE: oh it is

DAVE: it absolutely is

DAVE: also like

DAVE: dont tell her i said this but

DAVE: i think shes basically a fascist

KARKAT: WHY WOULD I TELL HER YOU SAID THAT?

KARKAT: WHEN THE FUCK WAS THE LAST TIME EITHER OF US HAD FUCK ALL TO DO WITH *JANE*

DAVE: no i know

DAVE: just like, a figure of speech i guess

DAVE: oh also shes a fucking xenophobe

KARKAT: OF COURSE SHE’S A XENOPHOBE!

KARKAT: DAVE, I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE NOTICED, BUT

KARKAT: A LOT OF HUMANS ARE???

DAVE: yeah ive noticed

KARKAT: ALSO, WHAT THE FUCK DOES SHE EVEN MEAN SHE’S “RUNNING”

KARKAT: WHAT A COMPLETE LOAD OF SHIT?

KARKAT: SHE’S A GOD. WHICH ONE OF THE TOADYING IDIOTS ON THIS PLANET WOULD DARE TO RUN AGAINST HER.

KARKAT: SHE’S GOING TO WIN IN A LANDSLIDE, ASSUMING SHE DOESN’T JUST WALTZ INTO OFFICE UNCONTESTED.

DAVE: yeah i dont disagree

DAVE: which is why we have to stop her

KARKAT: HUH?

KARKAT: DAVE, WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU SAYING?

KARKAT: ARE YOU TELLING ME *YOU’RE* GOING TO RUN AGAINST JANE?

KARKAT: ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW *RICH* SHE IS?

DAVE: dude were all rich

DAVE: we like invented the fucking economy

KARKAT: WELL, YEAH

KARKAT: BUT NOT LIKE

KARKAT: *CROCKER* RICH

DAVE: anyway no

DAVE: im not running

DAVE: you are

KARKAT: ME???????????????

DAVE: yeah man

DAVE: its perfect

DAVE: youre the ideal opponent to take her down and tbh just what this planet needs

KARKAT: NO I’M NOT!

DAVE: yeah

KARKAT: WE ESTABLISHED THIS... HOW MANY YEARS AGO?

KARKAT: I’M NOT A LEADER. I WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE ONE.

KARKAT: JANE PROBABLY IS. ALTHOUGH TO BE FAIR, I’M AGREEING WITH YOU, SHE’S A COMPLETE ASSHOLE.

KARKAT: I’M JUST NOT THE ONE TO RUN AN EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION CAMPAIGN. WHERE... HOW...

KARKAT: I WOULDN’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START!

DAVE: obviously you wouldnt do it on your own i would help

DAVE: id be like your campaign manager, or chief strategy guy or whatever

DAVE: also youre wrong

DAVE: you were meant to be a leader and youd be a good one

DAVE: just not the kind of leader you always thought youd be

DAVE: not a bellicose conquering dickhead who commands “fear and respect”

DAVE: just a guy who is cool and nice and actually cares about stuff and everyone loves them for that reason

KARKAT: PEOPLE DON’T LOVE ME!!!

DAVE: youre breaking my heart dude

DAVE: brb gonna hit the toilet for a quick power sob

KARKAT: SHUT THE FUCK UP

DAVE: it still amazes me how little awareness you genuinely seem to have of how insanely popular you are on this planet

DAVE: its fucking adorable

KARKAT: YOU’RE WRONG! ALL I SEE IS JAKE ON TV! AND JANE IN THE NEWS STORIES ABOUT HER STUPID BUSINESS, AND DIRK DOING WHATEVER... FUCKED UP SHIT HE’S DOING WITH HIS CELEBRITY PRESENCE??

KARKAT: I SEE YOUR MUG A LOT TOO, MR. FUCKING POLITICAL PUPPET MASTER.

KARKAT: YOU’D GET MORE VOTES THAN ME, AND YOU KNOW IT. YOU’RE PROBABLY JUST A COWARD!

DAVE: you only see famous humans on tv because you just avoid all troll kingdom channels deliberately

DAVE: you hate it whenever you see yourself on tv

DAVE: dont pretend i dont notice you change the channel as fast as possible whenever you see yourself

KARKAT: YEAH WELL MAYBE I

KARKAT: MAYBE I DON’T ACTUALLY LIKE BEING FAMOUS?

KARKAT: AND MAYBE THAT’S AS GOOD A FUCKING REASON AS ANY *NOT TO RUN FOR THE FUCKING PRESIDENCY OF EARTH*?????

KARKAT: NOT TO MENTION THE IDEA OF AN ELECTION IS KIND OF A FUCKED UP AND WEIRD THING TO ME CULTURALLY ANYWAY, AND I’M STILL KIND OF GETTING USED TO THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE CAN JUST... “CHOOSE” THEIR FUCKING LEADERS AND NOT HAVE THE SAME OLD MERCILESS BITCH IN POWER FOR SEVERAL MILLION YEARS.

DAVE: well what better way to acquaint yourself with democracy than to take a crack at high office yourself

DAVE: dude seriously you would absolutely kill it with the troll voting block

DAVE: the entire kingdom would vote for you

DAVE: theyd go ballistic if they heard a troll actually had the guts to run against jane, let alone one of their heroes

DAVE: and frankly just between you and me

DAVE: jane is...

DAVE: how do i put this

KARKAT: WHAT

DAVE: ok ill just be the one to come out and say it

DAVE: shes going to be a fucking disaster for the economy

KARKAT: ...

DAVE: i guess i have to admit

DAVE: part of this

DAVE: for me personally

DAVE: its

KARKAT: WHAT ARE YOU SAYING DAVE

DAVE: its about obama

DAVE: he barely even got a chance to prove himself

DAVE: he was sworn into office and it was cool and everything was gonna be great but then

DAVE: everyone died a few months later because of meteors

DAVE: dude was just gettin warmed up... so sad

DAVE: i wonder if he would have fixed the economy

DAVE: i bet he would have fixed the economy

KARKAT: DAVE, AS MUCH AS I ENJOY LISTENING TO YOU RAMBLE THROUGH YET ANOTHER CHAPTER OF YOUR FREESTYLE OBAMA FAN FICTION

KARKAT: DON’T YOU ALREADY HAVE A BASIS FOR KNOWING HOW HIS PRESIDENCY WOULD HAVE GONE?

KARKAT: I MEAN, WASN’T HE PRESIDENT IN THE TIME LINE JANE GREW UP IN TOO?

DAVE: oh

DAVE: yeah

DAVE: i mean yeah of course i know that

DAVE: i just dont like to think much about that time line

DAVE: it doesnt really feel like its

DAVE: canon?

KARKAT: DIDN’T SOME CLOWNS TAKE OVER THE WORLD OR SOMETHING?

DAVE: i dont wanna talk about it

DAVE: the point is

DAVE: in the world that mattered more, i mean like

DAVE: the one i belonged to that i used to imagine had a real future

DAVE: that didnt involve meteors or a fish dictator or the american political landscape turning into a nightmarish daily joke

DAVE: i still wonder what could have been

DAVE: if the O man coulda saved us all

DAVE: but instead he died probably

DAVE: or maybe not... maybe there was like an escape hatch in the white house that led to his own secret presidential session of sburb

DAVE: what if hes just chillin there now

KARKAT: DAVE, I THINK WE’VE COVERED YOUR “OBAMA’S SECRET SESSION OF SBURB” THEORY WELL ENOUGH ALREADY.

DAVE: i know i know

DAVE: im just saying is all

KARKAT: IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DREAM! I FUCKING GET IT.

DAVE: but yeah its more likely he just died

DAVE: but maybe it doesnt have to be in vain

DAVE: what if he died for our sins or something

KARKAT: HMM! SOUNDS FUCKING MEANINGLESS.

DAVE: yeah

DAVE: but i mean what if like

DAVE: he could be reborn

KARKAT: YES, WE’VE BEEN OVER YOUR OBAMA GOD TIER HEADCANONS TOO.

DAVE: no like

DAVE: reborn as you

DAVE: metaphorically

DAVE: you could be the great president he never got the chance to be

DAVE: you could give the people hope and shit

DAVE: you could inspire trolls everywhere

DAVE: or really all nonhuman kingdoms

DAVE: show them anybody could be a president

DAVE: not just an endless parade of rich humans who think they all know whats best for everybody

KARKAT: DAVE, I’M PRETTY SURE ANYONE *COULD* BE PRESIDENT?

KARKAT: IT’S ALWAYS SEEMED TO ME THAT HUMANS JUST SEEM TO BE MORE NATURALLY AMBITIOUS, AND THAT’S WHY THE POWER STRUCTURES TOOK THE SHAPE THEY DID THE LAST FEW MILLENNIA.

KARKAT: I MEAN, I DON’T CLAIM TO BE AN EXPERT ON XENOPSYCHOLOGY, BUT FOR SOME REASON I STRUGGLE TO IMAGINE A FUCKING SALAMANDER GETTING THE GUMPTION TO THROW HIS CRUMPLED HAT INTO THE RING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF EARTH.

KARKAT: OR THE CARAPACIANS FOR THAT MATTER?

KARKAT: THESE ARE NOT AMBITIOUS CREATURES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, DAVE.

KARKAT: THEY’RE A HUGE FLOCK OF WOOLBEASTS, DAVE.

DAVE: karkat dont stereotype

DAVE: remember the mayor

DAVE: remember how at one point a long time ago he raised an army and rebelled against an evil king

KARKAT: OH YEAH

KARKAT: SOMEHOW I ALWAYS FORGET HE DID THAT.

KARKAT: KIND OF MIND BOGGLING, REALLY.

KARKAT: HOLY SHIT, I MISS THE MAYOR.

DAVE: me too

DAVE: i think he would be totally in favor of my idea btw

DAVE: he loved democracy

KARKAT: NO SHIT, HE WAS A FUCKING MAYOR.

DAVE: i mean forget all the lizards and chess guys for a second

DAVE: just imagine the good you could do for the troll kingdom

DAVE: you would do a much better job of speaking to the injustices trolls face than jane would

KARKAT: WHAT INJUSTICES

DAVE: dude please

DAVE: where to even begin

DAVE: i know earth c has generally been a pretty chill place to live but theres been some shit going on that is legit creepy

DAVE: all this “population regulation” bullshit thats been going on since we basically set up civilization and peaced out to the future

DAVE: when you think about its long term consequences its been fuckin weird

DAVE: like the government being responsible for troll reproduction through cloning

DAVE: a government that just happens to be predominantly human most of the time?

DAVE: like it makes sense on paper at first, no mother grub, gotta keep the race going and expand the population for a good while and get the numbers up

DAVE: until kanaya gets here and hatches the grub and then i guess a system of “natural reproduction” can take over in theory but

DAVE: after so many centuries of that shit doesnt the weird political imbalance like

DAVE: get entrenched??

DAVE: and once rose and kanaya crank out a few more broods in the caverns i guess were supposed to think its all fixed right

DAVE: back to Trolls As Usual or something

DAVE: but do you really think the human kingdom is going to just sit back and let the troll race proliferate wildly all over earth

DAVE: turn it into another alternian empire

DAVE: folks know the history

DAVE: they know about the condesce and all the violence and the hemospectrum and shit

DAVE: theyre scared to death of the possibility that trolls could run wild all over the planet

KARKAT: DAVE, I KNOW ALL THIS.

KARKAT: IN FACT, *YOU* KNOW ALL OF THIS BECAUSE YOU’VE HEARD ME SAY IT TO KANAYA A THOUSAND TIMES.

KARKAT: ACTUALLY, IN AN EFFORT TO NOT GO FUCKING INSANE, I TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT ANYMORE!

DAVE: well maybe its time to start thinking about it again

DAVE: bro did u know, sitting on the sidelines in the face of oppression is tantamount to siding with the oppressors

KARKAT: UHNGH.

DAVE: you think a crocker administration is really going to go through with plans to deregulate troll breeding?

DAVE: she knows exactly what her base wants

DAVE: i can already see the dog whistles in this press release she isnt gonna do shit

DAVE: and really man

DAVE: if nothing else and i truly mean NOTHING

DAVE: please

DAVE: for the love of christ

DAVE: think of the economy

KARKAT: ARRRGH!!!!

DAVE: jane has this reputation for being awesome at business but imo she actually just sucks

DAVE: she doesnt seem to be even remotely aware how much shes leveraged her status as a god to become a bigshot trillionaire

DAVE: i think she thinks its all pure business acumen but i think she doesnt really know what shes doing

DAVE: fuckers left and right just be tripping all day long to give her money hand over fist

DAVE: of course shes gonna milk her biz cred for all its worth in this election

DAVE: shes probably a much better politician than a businesswoman actually she is like

DAVE: sinister as fuck? i mean

DAVE: she hides it well dont get me wrong

DAVE: also she isnt too hard on the eyes which wont hurt her chances one bit

DAVE: but shes going to be BRUTAL on their pocketbooks just you wait

KARKAT: I DON’T FUCKING BELIEVE THIS.

DAVE: she doesnt know the nuances of sound comprehensive fiscal policy like i do

DAVE: my skills are fucking legendary

DAVE: i manipulated the stock market to assume control of the literal majority of all currency on the planet once

DAVE: granted the economy was run by lobotomized reptiles but still

DAVE: wait that was speciesist sorry

DAVE: the point stands though i know what im doing

DAVE: what do you think is going to happen when jane takes over and the economy crashes

KARKAT: I...

KARKAT: I DON’T KNOW???

DAVE: its going to be pandemonium

KARKAT: WILL IT ACTUALLY BE THOUGH?!

DAVE: well

DAVE: i dunno

DAVE: ok if shit goes sideways i guess we arent gonna see like raggedy turtles and pauper chess men standing in bread lines or anything

DAVE: thats just the nature of alchemy-based post-scarcity economies the depressions tend to be pretty mild

DAVE: but it will still be bad

DAVE: a healthy economy is fuckin IMPORTANT

DAVE: if for no other reason than it protects the societal context for what it means to be fucking rich, like us

KARKAT: JUST A THOUGHT. LET’S COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT CAMPAIGN SLOGAN THAN THAT, OK?

DAVE: yeah

DAVE: but the point is just

DAVE: i guess

DAVE: she sucks and shouldnt be president the end

DAVE: you dont even have to think about economic shit i can do that for you

DAVE: ill be like the treasury secretary or something

DAVE: just please tell me youll do this

DAVE: do it for the trolls do it for the economy do it for the mayor

DAVE: but most of all

DAVE: (sniff)

DAVE: do it for obama

KARKAT: GOD DAMN IT DAVE.

KARKAT: I DON’T REALLY GIVE A FUCK ABOUT POLITICS, OR BEING A LEADER ANYMORE, AND I THINK YOU KNOW THAT.

KARKAT: I DON’T CARE ABOUT THE ECONOMY, AND WHILE I’M SURE THIS OBAMA FELLOW WAS A HELL OF A GUY, I COULDN’T GIVE LESS A FUCK ABOUT HIM EITHER.

KARKAT: BUT...

KARKAT: I DO CARE ABOUT YOU.

KARKAT: SO

KARKAT: I’LL DO IT.

KARKAT: WHY NOT.

DAVE: nice!

DAVE: aw yeah

DAVE: you wont regret it this is gonna be dope

DAVE: i think we have a great shot too

DAVE: with my political savvy and economic genius and outrageous flair for subversive anti establishment messaging and propaganda, and your big loud fucking mouth...

KARKAT: WHAT THE FUCK

DAVE: um i guess also your charisma and likability and shit

KARKAT: YEAH.

KARKAT: YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT...

KARKAT: I’M PRETTY SURE I CAN FAKE THOSE THINGS WELL ENOUGH.

DAVE: oh also

DAVE: your weirdly sincere humility

KARKAT: I PREFER THE TERM “SELF LOATHING” ACTUALLY.

DAVE: ok lets try to avoid that phrase on the campaign trail too

KARKAT: THIS ALREADY SOUNDS LIKE A PAIN IN THE ASS.

KARKAT: CAN’T I JUST

KARKAT: READ A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT YOU WRITE FOR ME OFF A TELEPROMPTER?

DAVE: yeah there will definitely be plenty of that

DAVE: but you also need to be natural and speak from the heart and shit

DAVE: just like

DAVE: talk to your people

DAVE: about stuff they care about

KARKAT: “MY PEOPLE”?

KARKAT: YOU MEAN TROLLS??

DAVE: oh

DAVE: yeah i guess that sounded bad sorry

DAVE: but yeah exactly

DAVE: trolls

DAVE: thats gonna be your base so you gotta rile em up

DAVE: inspire them

DAVE: i dont think you need any fancy speeches to do that youll be a natural

KARKAT: IF YOU SAY SO.

KARKAT: SO WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY... DO?

KARKAT: I MEAN, NEXT?

DAVE: time to talk some strategy

DAVE: we need to rally as much high profile support to our cause as we can

DAVE: but there are some uh

DAVE: “lines of loyalty” to figure out

KARKAT: WHAT?

DAVE: i mean which of our friends are going to side with us and which ones will side with jane

DAVE: pretty much all of us are famous and popular all over earth to some degree

DAVE: some of us more so with certain kingdoms than others

DAVE: so some key endorsements going either way could swing the whole election

KARKAT: OH, GREAT

KARKAT: SO IT ALL COMES DOWN TO HOW MANY FAMOUS HUMANS LIKE ME BETTER THAN JANE?

KARKAT: WE’RE FUCKED.

DAVE: well no not so fast

DAVE: lets think it through

DAVE: youll have overwhelming support in the troll kingdom and so does kanaya

DAVE: shes pretty much a lock to be on your side

DAVE: dirk unfortunately is just as much a lock for jane im gonna guess

DAVE: but after that its kind of a free for all

DAVE: roxy and calliope will probably be neutral

DAVE: they have a lot of pull with the carapacians though so that would be a nice score to sway them

DAVE: rose will probably claim neutrality at first but im betting she can be cajoled by her wife to our side

DAVE: and once we get rose converting roxy probably wont be too hard

DAVE: as for jade...

KARKAT: ...

DAVE: uh

DAVE: i think its fair to say shes going to be on our side

KARKAT: YEAH

DAVE: maybe a little too much so

KARKAT: UM, YEAH

KARKAT: I WASN’T GOING TO BE THE ONE TO SAY IT, BUT YEAH, I GET WHAT YOU MEAN.

DAVE: of course we want her help and her endorsement will go a long way but

DAVE: i think we gotta sort out like

DAVE: a hierarchical approach to campaign strategy

DAVE: keep it organized and disciplined with roles well defined

DAVE: not let things get too murky with uh

DAVE: personal shit?

KARKAT: I THINK WE’RE ON THE SAME PAGE HERE, DAVE.

DAVE: ok cool

DAVE: anyway lets come back to the jade issue later

DAVE: uh lets see who else

KARKAT: EGBERT?

DAVE: right

DAVE: john should be easy to convince but im not sure how much of a factor hell be in this campaign

DAVE: have no idea how long hell be away on this “mission” rose mentioned

KARKAT: WHAT? WHAT MISSION?

DAVE: dunno shes been hella cagey about it

DAVE: swore me to secrecy until the right time whenever that is

DAVE: anyway his endorsement would go a long way in swinging the consort kingdom

KARKAT: THAT WOULD BE HUGE.

KARKAT: AREN’T THERE LIKE

KARKAT: 100 BILLION OF THOSE FUCKERS?

KARKAT: SECURING THAT VOTING BLOCK SHOULD BE ABLE TO WIN THE WHOLE THING FOR US.

DAVE: well no the population isnt THAT big but yes its by far the most populous kingdom

DAVE: swinging them our way should help a lot but it wont be enough to decide the whole thing

DAVE: consorts overwhelm the other kingdoms in sheer numbers but due to unscrupulous gerrymandering, all kinds of fucked up voter suppression policies and some electoral “counterbalancing” measures to account for their ridiculous population growth rate their voting power per capita is kind of pathetic

DAVE: also its hard to drive turnout

DAVE: this may come as a shock but legions of easily distracted low information amphibians primarily concerned with eating bugs and farming god damned mushrooms arent the most politically motivated demographic

DAVE: so to get them out to the polls well need to get them REALLY excited

KARKAT: OK.

KARKAT: I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO TRUST YOUR EXPERTISE ON THAT, SINCE I DON’T KNOW THE FIRST FUCKING THING ABOUT HOW TO INSPIRE AN UNINTELLIGENT LIZARD.

DAVE: yeah well

DAVE: i dont either

DAVE: but that brings us to jake

KARKAT: OH, FUCK.

DAVE: no this is important

DAVE: jake is a huge wild card here

DAVE: im sure his endorsement would be completely up for grabs

DAVE: he could go any way including just getting turned off by the whole thing and staying “apolitical”

DAVE: so we have to be careful about how we approach him

DAVE: jake is the only one of us whos wildly popular in all four kingdoms

KARKAT: WELL, I CAN’T ARGUE WITH THAT.

DAVE: yeah so an endorsement from him would be huge

DAVE: seriously just running one ad of him doing his double pistol winking bullshit with a thing under it saying “VOTE KARKAT” might be enough to win the whole election

DAVE: just have to get the fickle bastard to agree to that which could be tricky

DAVE: and honestly id be shocked if jane hasnt already started courting his vote

DAVE: theres no way she doesnt understand the political stakes

KARKAT: SO...

KARKAT: IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THE JAKESTAKES THEN.

DAVE: pretty much

DAVE: the jakestakes 2.0

KARKAT: WHAT

KARKAT: THERE WAS A 1.0?

KARKAT: WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?

DAVE: oh thats like

DAVE: a whole story

KARKAT: IS THIS GOING TO BE ANOTHER ANECDOTE ABOUT THE JAKE SQUAD I WON’T CARE ABOUT AND DON’T WANT TO FUCKING HEAR?

DAVE: that sounds like the exact kind of opinion youd have about it so yeah

KARKAT: THEN I DON’T WANT TO FUCKING HEAR ABOUT IT.

DAVE: ok

DAVE: hmm

DAVE: shit hold up

KARKAT: WHAT?

DAVE: dirks calling me

KARKAT: WHAT THE FUCK DOES HE WANT?

DAVE: idk he just calls me out of the blue from time to time to talk shit

DAVE: usually about nothing whatsoever

DAVE: hell probably joke about how he needs me to cut off his head

KARKAT: HUH???

DAVE: its a running gag hes been running into the ground for years

DAVE: motherfucker is dedicated to his memes ill give him that

KARKAT: YOU SAID HE’S GOING TO BE A CROCKER LOYALIST RIGHT?

DAVE: oh absolutely

DAVE: no doubt about it

KARKAT: YOU DON’T THINK HE’S TRYING TO DO SOME...

KARKAT: RECONNAISSANCE WORK HERE?

KARKAT: LIKE, INTEL GATHERING?

DAVE: he doesnt even know youre entering the race yet

DAVE: no one does

KARKAT: OK. GOOD.

KARKAT: I GUESS YOU’D BETTER ANSWER THEN.

DAVE: ok well i missed the call while we were bullshitting about it

DAVE: but yeah ill just call him back now

DAVE: sup

DIRK: Hey dude.

DIRK: Got your sword handy?

DAVE: always

DIRK: Good. See, I’m in sort a bind here.

DIRK: And I’m afraid there’s only one way out.

KARKAT: OK, I’M FUCKING LEAVING.

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