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😷😷😷 Yes, yes—everything will be A-OK. Just come with us in our lovely all-black SUV – a very comfortable ride indeed – and answer our questions so we can make sure you end up where you belong. 😷😷😷

Luckily, I don't think the many faces of JD include a Cheney.

Besides, Trump doesn't really have the goofy yet loveable-in-a-war-criminal-kind-of-way demeanour that so naturally came to W. He's still a big bag of laughs against the backdrop of an utter hellscape.

Exhibit A—the Obama belly tap.

Trolling in indeed helpful.

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I swear this cocky ass “bag” keeps giving me the side eye. It’s about two megabytes away from me tearing it a new asshole.

Consider it your final warning.

Sure, insomnia sounds fun, but it kind of sucks.

I’m just waiting for the hatman to stroll onto the scene to really take it to the next level. In the meantime, I’m trying to work, but it’s like cats are running around in my periphery—the Black Flashes.

So wish me luck. I may never sleep again. 🧿

Luckily (not), I also have the familiar voices of about six coworkers in my head, talking to me according to their respective whimsies and at largely the same time.

I usually hear the sounds of an old radio in the distance if I’m tired; these visions and voices, albeit fleeting, are something else.

I’ve slept so awful over the past couple of weeks – especially these last few days in a fucking Hilton while working a massive trade show – I keep having to double take the floor lamp, which my eyes have consistently betrayed me to appear as some unknown slender man.

I’m working on the next edition of Power & Philately—and watch out because it's a doozy.

Until then, uncover the wide world of stamps as mass media tools of myth-making and nation-building propaganda using my comprehensive mind map.

powerandphilately.substack.com

#philately #stamps #AI #politics

Are you goddamn teenagers? What was so great about the War on Terror.

I hate to break it to you, but the party ended in September 2001—the New American Century was right on time.

Apple pie is indeed English. Of course, I covered the issue in a roughly 800-word footnote in my latest Substack story, which focuses on neither apples nor pie. But I talk a lot about national myth-making, and apple pie makes for deliciously good propaganda.