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Vegan Strongman Tom Butts takes another win. 
#strongman #veganathletes #plantpowered #sports #athletes
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T'was a good week training. I hit all new 5 rep personal records:
- Shoulder press: 5 @ 175 lbs / 79.5 kgs
- Deadlift: 5 @ 535 lbs / 243.2 kgs
- Bench press: 5 @ 255 lbs / 115.9 kgs
- Squat: 5 @ 455 lbs / 206.8 kgs
#politics #alt #hegseth #nationalsecurity #signal #doj #strongman
Heather Cox Richardson “The Right Kind of Strongman” 4/24/25
#politics #alt #trump # cowboymyth #strongman @ALT
Heather Cox Richardson The Cowboy Myth and Trump 4/24/202
Fortgeführter Thread
…#Trump risks abandoning leadership of a liberal democratic order that spreads American values & global prosperity, siding instead w/ #autocratic #strongman govts.
#EdMartin advocated greater #US - #Russia cooperation before Trump’s 1st meeting as pres w/ #Putin, in Germany in July 2017, saying on #RT that he expected Trump to come away w/ “some affinity w/Putin.” He struck the same note just after the #Ukraine invasion, as the US imposed sanctions on Putin personally.
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"Another disaster that could have been avoided if even one person had the courage to speak.
This is the reality of strongman politics. There is no actual strength, no insight, no courage, no clarity—just power defended by people who’ve convinced themselves that being loyal means staying mute.
It always looks ridiculous in hindsight."
- @Daojoan
westenberg. · Why Hitler Slept Through D-DayOn the morning of June 6th, 1944, Hitler was sound asleep.
The Allies were landing. Tens of thousands of soldiers were pouring onto the beaches. The tide was turning, the war accelerating toward its violent, inevitable end. And the man leading the Reich was in bed, untouched.
His generals knew
Fortgeführter Thread
Fraenkel offered a simple, yet powerful, picture of how the #constitutional & #legal foundations of the Weimar Republic eroded, & were replaced by #strongman-style rule in which the commands of the #Nazi Party & its leader became paramount. His perspective was not grounded in abstract political theory; it grew instead from his experience as a Jewish lawyer in Nazi Berlin representing #dissidents & other disfavored clients.
Ah yes. It's never the fault of the #strongman. It's always those who follow orders. Surely there isn't a crap ton of #judicial precedent regarding #organizedcrime, #economic crime, #war crimes, #cult crimes, etc that proves with finality that #ElonMusk is an idiot....oh wait.
Union rages after Elon Musk shares [Twitter] post that ‘Hitler didn’t murder millions, public sector workers did’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-hitler-murder-public-workers-x-b2714911.html
The Independent · Union rages after Elon Musk shares X post that ‘Hitler didn’t murder millions; public sector workers did’
Fortgeführter Thread
"Shock events are about creating a space for experimentations with governance. The power-sharing arrangement of Trump and Musk innovates the authoritarian playbook, opening new horizons of corruption and the fantasy of being untouchable by the law."
Fortgeführter Thread
"While Trump came into office legally, the Trump-Musk administration is taking not the gradualist path to change chosen by autocrats who arrive in power via elections, but a more extremist route, one reminiscent of the political climate after a coup.
This is where DOGE comes in."
"One of the strongman’s best-kept secrets is that he has little interest in day-to-day governance: what really motivates him is power, control and riches to be made. Trump’s true loves are golfing and promoting Trump-branded properties (he spent one-third of the first three years of his first term doing the latter, and is on track to surpass that, having golfed at his Florida courses for 13 of his first 48 days in office)."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #strongman
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/trump-and-musks-power-sharing-agreement
Lucid · Trump and Musk's Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the Authoritarian Playbook
Hmmmm... Why am I having #DejaVu?
From 2022: "Vladimir #Putin has mentioned 'gender freedoms' more than once to justify #Russia’s war against #Ukraine and simultaneously crack down on its own citizens.
"Most directly, he alleged that Russian citizens who seek '#GenderFreedoms' (alongside foie gras and oysters) are part of the anti-Russian 'fifth column.'
"Gender and sexuality freedoms — or rights, as they are more typically called — are about #BodilyAutonomy, #diversity and #inclusivity. #Feminist and #LGBTQ+ activists assert that every human being deserves respect, recognition and equal rights regardless of their gender or sexuality.
"What’s the connection between Putin’s animosity toward Ukraine and toward #gender and #sexuality rights in Russia and around the world?
Gender and Putin’s regime
"Putin’s regime has increasingly relied on very conventional gender and sexual norms.
"When he first ascended to the presidency, image-makers used Putin’s #KGB background and penchant for physical fitness to frame him as a #macho #strongman who could reverse Russia’s waning power and 'remasculinize' the country after a decade of supposed geopolitical flaccidity in the wake of the #Soviet collapse.
"In other words, an inflexible and clearly #patriarchal notion of masculinity has been central to the Putin regime’s legitimacy.
"Russia’s foreign policy has relied on rigid gender norms as well. When Ukraine underwent its first pro-democracy revolution in 2004, Russian media questioned its leaders’ masculinity.
"Putin likewise used homophobic terms to dismiss #Georgia’s #RoseRevolution in 2003, responding to a reporter’s question by saying: 'A rose revolution — next they’ll come up with a light blue one.' In Russian, 'light blue' or goluboi is slang for “gay male.”
Gender and appealing to constituencies
"Putin has often been represented as the unquestioned leader of the pack ruling Russia — a masculinity-driven image.
"However, even as the leader of a personalist #dictatorship — a regime in which there are few institutional limits on the leader’s power — Putin must balance competing interests among significant elites and maintain at least the appearance of public support in order to be considered a legitimate ruler.
"Until 2020, Putin was using gendered language in his speeches to signal his alignment with a variety of elites and public constituencies that supported him. He was sending mixed signals to both relatively progressive Russians who value women’s roles in the workplace and to #conservatives wishing for a return to '#TraditionalFamilyValues,' in order to keep everyone in his camp.
"But after July 2021, when he published an essay contending Ukrainians and Russians are a single people, Putin no longer shied away from making sexist and LGBTQ+-phobic comments in prominent settings.
"At an October 2021 meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club — a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum that Putin is closely associated with — he said teaching children about #GenderFluidity was 'truly monstrous' and 'verging on a crime against humanity.'"
Read more:
https://theconversation.com/vladimir-putin-the-czar-of-macho-politics-is-threatened-by-gender-and-sexuality-rights-180473
#USPol #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #GBLTQRights #HumanRights #WomensRights #ToxicMasculinity #GenderFascists
The ConversationVladimir Putin, the czar of macho politics, is threatened by gender and sexuality rightsPutin has been consumed with presenting a hyper-macho image throughout his presidency. And in recent years, he’s ramped up sexist and LGBTQ-phobic rhetoric.
Selenskyj wirbt für Feuerpause auf See und am Himmel
Wo ist der #strongman und #dealmaker #donaldtrump 
Gegenüber #putin ist Trump ein kleines Kätzchen, oder wie Putin es, zwar in einem anderen Kontext sagte: Kommen sie und Wedeln mit dem Schwanz Der große Trump ganz klein. Nur gegen seine verbündeten macht er den starken Mann #russiaukrainewar
ZDF LiveblogSelenskyj wirbt für Feuerpause auf See und am HimmelSelenskyj wirbt für Feuerpause auf See und am Himmel
Arnold Strongwoman/Strongman Classic started now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iM04GRsuz8
The women are up on the elephant bar deadlift right now. Good stuff!
#strongman #strongwomen #strengthtraining
"He parades as a strongman, but in fact he’s weak, weak, weak. In the face of America’s adversaries Donald Trump is, as he might put it, a patsy, a sucker, a pushover. He folds like a pack of cards. He’s a human doormat. A loser.
Just consider the gifts he has handed Vladimir Putin this week."
~ Jonathan Freedland
The Guardian · Trump is the world’s greatest showman – and the weakest strongman it has ever seen
Today's #workout was an "events" day. In #strongman style training/competition that is basically a day dedicated to specialized movements for a show. In the program I'm doing now, they have a day for pressing/moving, another day for loading. It's something I've only ever done half committed mainly because lacking equipment and smaller space to work in. But I'm really trying to make it work best I can.
So for pressing/moving, I did Continental Clean & Press/Sandbag carries. The clean and press is tough cause I don't have bumpers or crash pads. Carrying is tough cause outside is like 2ft of snow everywhere and indoor space is snug. I managed to sort it out where I think it'll work well enough for now. So that's progress!
#StrengthTraining #gym