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Cerridwen

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1. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality" karl rove
Mon Sep 9, 2019, 07:55 AM
Sep 2019
"That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—
we'll act again, creating other new realities
, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Suskind, Ron (2004-10-17). Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush. The New York Times Magazine.
Danner, Mark (2007). "Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth and Power". in András Szántó. What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (First edition ed.). Philadelphia, PA: PublicAffairs Reports. pp. 17. "... the unnamed official speaking to Suskind is widely known to be none other than the self-same architect of the aircraft-carrier moment, Karl Rove ..." <emphasis added>


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"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality" karl rove Cerridwen Sep 2019 #1
Thank you for that remembrance. And Rove was just one in a long line of false profits or erronis Sep 2019 #17
and Kick! planetc Sep 2019 #2
Thank you! 2naSalit Sep 2019 #3
Thank you for the cartoons Gothmog Sep 2019 #4
THIS - love the dollar bill sleeves malaise Sep 2019 #5
It's from this: mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2019 #10
WTH? Even without the wind blowing up the sleeves, it's awful. Awful. SharonAnn Sep 2019 #15
"United States first lady" ????????????? Haggis for Breakfast Sep 2019 #19
Great Toons...Thank You for posting them...k and r nt Stuart G Sep 2019 #6
LOL!! Bayard Sep 2019 #7
Nice typo. "Here comes the hurricane Adderal". erronis Sep 2019 #18
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Sep 2019 #8
Trump's Taliban meeting keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #9
Wow, these are brilliant PatSeg Sep 2019 #11
Holy cow, these are good! cp Sep 2019 #12
Knowing the backstories, as I read each cartoon, I mentally shrug or admire the artist's Karadeniz Sep 2019 #13
K&R, uponit7771 Sep 2019 #14
Thank you. murielm99 Sep 2019 #16
K&R and thanks. nt tblue37 Sep 2019 #20
Ann Telnaes is amazing. Danziger/Betsy deVos is heartbreaking. Kicktoons. Hekate Sep 2019 #21
Amazing collection LittleGirl Sep 2019 #22
K&R real Cannabis calm Sep 2019 #23
The sharpie is mightier than the sword. Nitram Sep 2019 #24
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