Hollow threats ...or "Two's company, three's a CROWD!" Better click in for this, for important detail... Today's #MarchIntoLandscapes theme is #Crowded #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #parrots #fighting #nest #BIF #hollow #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
Ever looked into the blank eyes of people at the club? it’s like their soul has departed their body for the time being, as ritualistic rhythms move them in a trance-like fashion, a dance where they are no longer in the present moment, but removed to the back ally of thier mind.
And i firstly couldn't believe, that the #Superbowl-#Audience actually #celebrate/d this #evil #Parody of a #President like there is no tomorrow.
How #dumb and #hollow can #People be ?
This is really #unbelievable.
@vssthreads She has a #hollow where her mouth once was. Barely seems to care.
'Sometimes things get lost,' she shrugs, her words emanating from nowhere.
That night I open the box where I keep her lips and lift them to my own and sigh. There is nothing sweeter in this world than a stolen kiss.
#VSS-Hollow #VSS
#hollow : having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance
- French: vide
- German: unsichtbar
- Italian: affossamento
- Portuguese: oco
- Spanish: vacío
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
So #hollow inside
my smile does not reach my eyes
no one notices.
decaf coffee left
me #hollow and cold even
if filled to the rim
#DailyHaikuPrompt (cold)
#haiku #poetry
#vss365 (hollow)
#ShadyVance’s (#JDVance) #StolenValor: ‘He Puts on #Poverty Like You Put on #Makeup’
There’s a #hollow #core at the center of Vance’s #originstory — his #falseclaim that he “#Grewup #poor”
— He also wears eyeliner
MORTEN and ARTBAT have joined forces with Bonn for their latest release, “Hollow,” a melodic techno anthem capturing the heartache of a fading relationship.
https://retroworldnews.com/morten-artbat-and-bonn-unite-for-powerful-new-single-hollow/
Her theatrical dance trough
the open field startled some birds, yet
was overall enchanting
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#hollow
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Lady dancing in a flowery Field - Aobram
"Gah!" The rogue spluttered.
The barbarian set the empty bucket down. "Glad you're awake."
"But, we were at the fair?"
"I carted you off."
The rogue's eyes narrowed. "We were drugged?"
"YOU were. I mistrust wandering traders offering odd-#flavoured sweets for free."
The rogue checked his coin pouch. Empty. His laugh was #hollow. "I #suspect I'm not the first."
"Yeah." The barbarian gently patted his own purse. It was heavier than a few minutes ago.
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#Prompt: #Hollow
Old lady falls down
People look and walk on by
Must have hollow hearts
promises hollow
to the kitchen he’ll follow
meowing “how low!”
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democracy
empty
hollow can you go?
The #MastoPrompt for Friday 23 August 2024 is:
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Donald Trump is behind.
He trails in the pivotal postindustrial swing states
and is treading water in the Southern and Sun Belt states
— Arizona, Georgia and Nevada
— that could help him find an alternative path to 270 electoral votes.
In just a few months, Trump may join the exclusive club of
two-time presidential losers.
Of course, it is still too early to make any real prediction about November.
But the sharp reversal in Trump’s electoral fortunes raises an obvious question worth thinking about now:
If Trump loses, and perhaps especially if he loses badly,
what comes next for the Republican Party?
As striking as the relative electoral weakness of the Trump-era Republican Party
is its 
total inability to either govern or police the boundaries of its coalition.
Trump himself has no program beyond his own prejudices and impulses.
“Build the wall” and “mass deportation now”
reflect a deep-seated hostility to nonwhite immigrants that has no basis other than #rank #bigotry.
“Stop the steal” and Trump’s broader obsession with so-called election integrity
is nothing more than an attempt to operationalize his core belief that he #cannot actually #lose an election, or anything for that matter.
Fittingly, the Trump-led Republican Party declined to devise a platform for the 2020 presidential election
and produced a set of Trump-esque #slogans for its 2024 one.
To the extent that there is a Republican agenda, it is a product of the hard-right #ideologues and conservative #organizations that
see Trump as a willing vessel and vehicle for their own interests.
Trump’s leadership has also occasioned the total collapse of the boundaries (such as they were)
separating the far-right #fringe of American politics from its #mainstream.
The former president provides license for
— and inspiration to
— a large crop of right-wing extremists
who 
disdain democracy and openly fantasize about the use of violence
to eliminate their political opponents.
“Some folks need killing,” Mark Robinson, the Republican Party’s nominee for governor in North Carolina, declared at a church event in June.
Trump’s Republican Party is a paradigmatically “#hollow” party,
according to the argument laid out by the political scientists Daniel #Schlozman and Sam #Rosenfeld
in 
“The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.” 
For all its activity, a hollow party “demonstrates fundamental #incapacities in organizing democracy.”
Its zombielike commitment to tax cuts and deregulation notwithstanding,
the Republican Party from this vantage point is little more than “a personal vehicle for Trump’s vendettas and fantasies.”
It offers nothing to the public, they observe, “besides praise for its leader.”
So what happens if and when that leader loses yet another national election for his party?
What happens when, 
️in the face of conditions that seem as favorable as they could be, ️
the Republican coalition led by Trump 
still falls short?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/opinion/trump-republican-party-loss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
