catpushmike.bsky.social
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Traveller, photographer, open-mic musician, cyclist.
Jaded, not cynical. Ex-denizen of the lefty blogosphere. Here to post photos and hone my snark.
Resist!
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Except it’s only right wing assholes that throw bricks and bombs and point guns, so we have nothing to fear, right, Sheriff Tough Guy?
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Situational awareness, always. Work out an escape route so you can quickly and calmly move or leave. Develop a nose for trouble so you see it before it actually happens.
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I call myself progressive, not leftist, but will also say I’m on the left. I think it confuses some people.
Liberal is also tainted because many centrists self-identity as one.
I call angry leftists “faux-leftists” as they have no interest in workable policies.
I hope that clears things up.
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Even if he wasn’t who he is and just some humble citizen who spoke up, their behaviour was wildly disproportionate and unconscionable.
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These bloated cowards don’t actually want to go up against actual criminals. Might get dicey.
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That dude is so fucking dim. I haven’t read one thing from him here that isn’t an easily disprovable centrist cliché.
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*a
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—>Don’t wall off o whole category with your cart while reading labels.
—>be ready to move your cart to maintain aisle flow
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I was just rolling my eyes at the NYT phrasing.
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Raise the minimum wage.
A lot.
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“common sense and hard-nosed savvy”
Ffs…
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I can smell the mildew from here.
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We’re too fractious. We’re too critical.
We’re too naive.
We’re too closed-minded.
We get attacked from all sides. Purists, centrists, fascists.
Dems say we’re too mean. Repubs say we’re irrelevant.
And yet we seem to be the only social media site that’s meeting the moment.
Time for a soda.
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Mike Johnson, Soeaker of the House, said Newsom should be tarred and feathered. Where are the Dems in censuring that??
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I understand your politician’s sentiments, but call me outraged they’re allowing a felon and rapist who threatened our sovereignty into Canada
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I hear you. But they work for Trump. Obviously they’re motivated to support his agenda.
They’re always willing to point out some expert who donated $25 to the Democrats as a way to undercut the findings.
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Take note, Chuck Schumer. That’s called gumption.
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His brain is cooked.
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It’s a process.
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So this gives them five more days to commit terror.
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“They went that way. Through the fire door and up the stairs. Hurry!”
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Why does every ICE agent look like they’d be risking a heart attack if they ran up two flights of stairs?
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Libertarian = the right to be an asshole without fear of consequence. With a civil liberties fig leaf.
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Now they just need to call new country “not country at all”, and all will be well.
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At no time during this saga did I stop to consider whether Rebecca was a “wine mom”.
But I did read her essay all the way through. It spoke for everyone on the left.
Did any of these faux-leftist jerkwads bother to do that? They rival MAGA in their ignorance. They are not allies of democracy.
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I wish they’d stop using phrases like “there are facts we need to gather”.
Some dramatic action, please.
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ICE raids on Quinnipiac in 3…2…1…
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Only 11 or 12 more points before he crashes to the crazification factor floor.
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Put another way, they don’t actually care about violence. They welcome it, in fact.
It’s protest they’re afraid of.
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If the incident itself wasn’t an immediate answer, I don’t know what is.
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The weird thing is, the lashing out is being aimed at people who were right to lash out at Dems choosing business as usual and working across the aisle over true oppositional gumption.
What Trump really wants is that we all behave nicely and refuse to fight.
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Does he like to chill with Netflix and long walks on the beach?
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Does a sense of right vs. wrong get surgically removed at J schools?
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And by non-lethal, we mean weapons that can blind you, disable you, knock out your teeth or give you a concussion.
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I can make a Negroni at home for $4, or I can go downtown and pay $22.
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I sure wish Dem consultants would look at themselves in the mirror and ask how we arrived at this situation.
I also wish they’d stop lecturing “Blueskiers” about how they should think and behave.
We saw how it would turn out if D’s didn’t fight. We were vociferous. The pols should have listened.
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Whippersnapper, back in the day we didn’t even have nested threads.
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Remember: Trump isn’t against violence or property damage, whatever he tells the world. He’s against dissent.
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There’s a history of RW provocateurs stirring up trouble in order to justify a heavy handed response.
Nobody with brains should be connecting vandalism with peaceful protest even when they happen simultaneously. Troublemakers are a collateral phenomenon driven by opportunism.
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I hope Dark As A Dungeon by Merle Travis is on there.
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Fucker’s blocking the sidewalk, too.
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I hate fuckers who block sidewalks like that.
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Are any Dems moving to censure this dweeb?
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[barely perceptible smirk]
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What about a decency agenda? The abundance agenda isn’t offering much to struggling workers.
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I’ve long felt public-opinion polling is highly suspect because people’s views are so heavily slanted by the right wing noise machine with very little corrective pushback from corporate media.
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Hear hear, Charlie! It’s an abomination.
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Hey, Tsam! First time I’ve seen you here!
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You need to hit back with a bunch of stereotypes of teenage boys. He doesn’t stand a chance.