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rings me to this 7 43 pm saturday february 11 2006 i shot this about two months after buying my first digital camera an olympus c770uz we re talking four megapixels i d put away my canon a1 a couple years earlier bored with photography most of the photos i d shot in the preceding years were job related forensic photos of crime scenes or surveillance photos a friend had bought one of those olympus cameras and it looked like fun so i bought one and started playing with it this photo was shot at night a 15 second exposure illuminated with a flashlight it s just one of my old arson boots jammed full of dead grass i d gathered during the day and set on top of a clay flowerpot no idea why i must have been in a dadaist mood i even gave the photo a title vase you know i m starting to understand some of the value of looking at old photos i was a lot more playful with photography back then i think having a digital camera being liberated from the expense and constraints of film gave me more freedom to just try weird shit and immediately get a sense of whether that weird shit worked i recall getting several friends to simultaneously throw objects into the air which i d then photograph things like footwear or toys or pieces of fruit hovering in the air now i think of it my first foray into instagram was a project i called things on a table which had a somewhat dadaist anti art nonsensical vibe and was also sparked by the purchase of new tech in this case a cellphone with a decent camera since it wasn t a real camera and instagram wasn t a serious photo app i could just fiddle around with them the project involved finding a thing putting that thing on a glass topped patio table then photographing the thing i wrote about things on a table back in 2014 i may have to consider doing some sort of dadaist project preferably one that doesn t require buying new tech posted in art stuff confessional crap greg looks at an old photo photography 8 replies is he making this up as he goes along obiviously posted on may 16 2026 by greg 6 as you almost certainly know comrade trump was recently asked how much thought he was giving to the financial situation of americans in his negotiations with iran his answer not even a little bit the only thing that matters when i m talking about iran they can t have a nuclear weapon i don t think about americans financial situation i don t think about anybody i think about one thing we cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon that s all for the moment let s just ignore the fact that iran has no nuclear weapons and currently lacks the capacity to create them let s just focus on that statement and the reaction to it obviously a lot of us citizens were offended and angered by it but what about trump s base specifically let s see what the trump loving patriots at freerepublic had to say about it you may be surprised well i was surprised to find freepers were almost evenly divided about trump s comments and his excursion in iran in general i expected the majority to be maximally trump brained and some most certainly were you can always count on cbs to slice out a piece of a trump statement to make it sound as bad as possible keeping the nukes out is well worth the price but the trump haters have no vision beyond that hatred by gibsonguy nothing would destroy the usa financial well being like an iranian nuke going off in a major city by protectourfreedom america first means doing what it takes to remove the iran nuclear threat how is this so hard to understand i would gladly pay 7 at the pump if that s what it takes by kleon why aren t liberals mad at iran for the high gas prices and general disorder in the mid east by az joe as the leader of the free world you need to lead by example and through the strength that you possess to do the right thing and stand up for other democracies israel is the only democratic country in the middle east by standing with them you instill discipline within the world community and establish your credentials as the leader of the free world imagine if you will letting israel flounder and allowing it to be nuked by iran that would be a terrible example and other countries would start losing respect for america the united states must lead sitting on your arse is not an option by jerod terrorist muslims bent on death to america with a nuclear weapon is the greatest threat to our national security that i can think of trump is not doing this because he wants to but because he cares more about america than those who preceded him office and likely cares more than those who will likely succeed him by biblebelter that s pretty much what i was expecting to find but hold on to your keffiyehs friends because a surprising number of freepers are angry and disgusted with trump and his war against iran who d a thunk it i watched that video and proves trump is out of touch with the average american but he is more worried about his stock market pals he will pay a steep price for being out of touch wonder what happened to america first by dpetty121263 americans who don t watch cbs who voted for trump are also economically hurting right now by condoleezzaprotege if trump is dead set with iran not having nuclear weapons then he needs to put troops on the ground instead of doing it all by air right now he also would not be negotiating he is making things worse by negotiating this is his screw up the economy is going to crap republicans will lose big either pull out or go all the way in obiviously he is making it up as he is going along and this adventure was poorly planned by moviefan8 tucker says iran is no where close to having a nuke tucker has intelligence that is so much better than trump s trump just wanted to go to war because well because er well cause epstein by sir bangaz cracka what most likely happened was trump believed he was going to replay his grand venezuelan victory out in tehran it blew up in his face and now we all have to pretend that we were going to get incinerated at any moment if trump had not blundered into this stupid war by hcmama there you are trump being trump naturally had to double down on his comment when asked about it after his return from china he said it s a perfect statement i ll make it again everybody agrees president xi jinping and you know that guy he s right sort of almost everybody does agree that trump doesn t know what the hell is going on isn t capable of understanding what s going on even if he knew and doesn t have a plan to deal with what s going on obiviously which is probably how trump pronounces it endnote just to be clear at present iran has neither the material nor the capacity to make any nuclear weapons the cia has confirmed it would take at least one year to create a nuclear weapon if they had the technologies necessary to produce enough fissile material and to design and implement a delivery system with a proper detonation system and they don t have that obiviously posted in comrade trump current events fascist bullshit inexplicable shit military stuff shit you can t make up 6 replies iran 1 america 0 posted on may 12 2026 by greg 2 okay this is humiliating the united states initiated an unprovoked war with iran and we lost we lost in every measurable way in the 250 year history of the us we ve never suffered such a calamitous and decisive strategic loss the us military may never recover from this oh sure over time we can rebuild our weapon stockpiles and we ll maintain technological military superiority over most of the world but in terms of reputation and confidence we ve shit in our pants that stink won t go away we have comrade trump and pete hegseth to directly blame for this but it s not only the fault of those fuckwits we elected trump you and i may not have voted for him but there s no escaping the fact that we as a nation elected him a second time knowing exactly who and what he is we elected him and again that stink won t go away obviously starting a war with iran was massively stupid in the first place hell starting a war with any nation instead of using the soft power of diplomacy is massively stupid but jesus suffering fuck if you re stupid enough to start a war at the very least you need to make sure you have a solid practical plan to win it at the very least make sure you have clear objectives that are attainable militarily at the very least make sure you have a plan for after you ve achieved those objectives at the very fucking least make sure you can justify the war to the families and friends of the troops who ll die in it but all that would require professional military leaders we don t have many of those left pete hegseth saw to that there s never been a secretary of defense so blatantly unqualified to hold that post as pete hegseth a long history of serious alcohol abuse should have been enough to disqualify him a repeated history of fiscal mismanagement of both concerned veterans for america and vets for freedom should have been enough to disqualify him a history of marital infidelity and sexual abuse of women including an accusation of rape that was derailed by a financial settlement with the accuser should have been enough to disqualify him his lack of military leadership experience should have been enough to disqualify him hell his arrogant and offensive personality should have been enough to disqualify him how can the us lose a war against iran put this bonehead in charge but no trump wanted him and maga gives trump whatever he wants hegseth is the only secretary of defense whose approval to the position required a tie breaking vote by the vice president no democrat voted for him only three republicans opposed him hegseth proceeded to recreate the military in his own image white male arrogant reckless careless vindictive testosterone poisoned extreme christianist and deeply deeply stupid he and trump approached iran like schoolyard bullies and iran kicked sand in our face the united states is weaker now weaker in almost every respect our international reputation is shit our military has been effectively embarrassed our economy is in shambles any claim the us ever had to moral ethical leadership is now as dead as marley s ghost like i said at the beginning this is humiliating and assuming this nation survives trump and his maga lemmings maybe that s a good thing our only hope to regaining a place in civilized international society is to learn a little humility we can t just insist we re great we need to aim at just being decent and hope we can make it so posted in uncategorized 2 replies doesn t really matter posted on april 29 2026 by greg 4 i generally think conspiratorial thought process are the province of cranks and folks who watch too much television so i find it sort of alarming when people i know to be thoughtful intelligent reasonable and logical start suggesting that the recent incident at the white house correspondents dinner was staged i understand some of the reasons they feel that way let s face it it was a weird and improbable event in itself much of the apparent weirdness is compounded by the fact that most folks don t really understand how perimeter security works or how difficult it is to shoot a moving target there s no reason they should have an understanding of those things but a little clarity might help the moment allen cole ran through the security magnetometer people keep asking how cole allen i don t know why everybody keeps calling him the shooter since even the secret service agrees he never fired a shot got through so many security personnel why they ask weren t the security staff paying more attention and how did the secret service officer firing his weapon at cole allen miss him here s why the security staff wasn t paying more attention their job was done once all the invited guests had been cleared and admitted into the ballroom where the dinner was taking place one level below the checkpoint where allen was stopped the ballroom was made secure the ballroom doors were closed and guarded as were the elevators stairs and escalators leading to that level at that point the duty of security had been passed to a different team perimeter security is relaxed and the physical apparatus can be dismantled it just saves time the fact is staff aren t very concerned about intruders because there s no place an intruder can go when cole allen scooted through the magnetometer he only succeeded in boxing himself in how did the secret service officer manage to fire at least four times at a target only a few feet away from him and miss i blame this on television which gives viewers a wildly unrealistic understanding of firearms and shooting hitting a moving target with a handgun is hard even with training the faster the target is moving the harder it becomes and cole allen was fast toss in the stress and adrenaline produced by an event of this kind and it becomes harder still most often you end up firing at a space the target occupied a fraction of a second earlier it s not all that surprising that the officer missed well missed cole allen anyway it seems likely he accidentally tagged one of his fellow officers but that misunderstanding of how the world actually works is just part of the reason folks are leaning toward the belief that the incident was staged another reason is that nobody trusts the current administration to tell the truth about anything representative democracy depends in large part on the assumption that 1 the government use of power is legitimate and 2 the citizenry can generally rely on the government to be consistent and relatively honest neither of those assumptions apply anymore it s not just that everybody in the trump administration lies or that there s no penalty for lying or even that they don t care if everybody knows they re lying down at the bone the consistent pervasive ubiquitous lying erodes the very concept of truth or shared reality for a lot of folks what actually happened at the whcd doesn t matter as much as what they believe might have happened posted in comrade trump despicable behavior general asshattery stuff that s just fucking stupid stupid fucking people what the actual fuck 4 replies thisness and whatness and something more posted on april 21 2026 by greg 6 i find i m less and less interested in photographing stuff by stuff i mean things objects including people back in the late 1980s william eggleston declared i am at war with the obvious i m not at war with it i m just no longer interested in it when you photograph things and it doesn t really matter what that thing is you re basically saying this is important this thing this object this building this person this whatever it s an acknowledgment that this very specific individual thing is worth your attention almost all photography is about this i ve spent most of my life photographing this look at this this is how i see this there s a term for that the thisness of things haecceity yeah it looks like i just 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