gregory9.bsky.social
English instructor, retired / pianist / resistance sympathizer / digs Henry James, Great British Bake-Off, Scriabin / admires well-edited car chases and elegant fight choreography /
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This Canadian welcomes the three named states, but with one proviso: I gather that Sacramento is a viper's nest of conservatism, so residents of that city and environs will have to take a woke test. If they can't or won't supply their pronouns, they can take their chances with Mad King Donald.
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Oh yeah, he'll take America back, all right--back to the 1870s.
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Charlatans hire charlatans, because in their bizarro world, deception is authenticity. And the trump-voting mentality is to not differentiate between what they see on TV and what they see when they look out the window. They're like gullible children, or smart Golden Retrievers.
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Come on--it's Trump. All he cares about is optics, how it looks on TV. He doesn't want the media to get video of how many thousands are protesting against him and his band of unqualified thugs, so he has them threaten the public. Freedom of assembly? Freedom of speech? Just a vague memory.
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The maga trunts wouldn't mind. They might rebel if he were sleeping with miners. 😏
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He's the cowardly lyin'. You can see the exact moment he goes from being a vengeful cardboard god to a panicky little scaredy-cat! "I don't know about the Epstein..um..lots of phony stuff there..um, um..."
Masterful misdirection, Donnie, no one would ever guess you have something to hide.
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He looks as though he's enjoying his last few seconds of consciousness before falling into a sugar coma and explosively filling his adult diaper.
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I would just respond to this Portnoy character, whoever he is, using Ms. Thunberg's response to a similar attack by the misogynist miscreant Andrew Tate, whom she invited to email her at "[email protected].” How dare she not bow before The Almighty Phallus, however diminutive it may be?
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After half a century of crime, sexual assault, and multiple bankruptcies, THIS is what embarrasses him?
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Yikes, that's hardly white at all! Trump's gonna have to fire all the Met people and hire a 14 year-old maganoid to run it. He'll be home schooled, so he'll know nothing about history or art, but he did see Game of Thrones, though he's not sure which country that happened in. Maybe Monaco? Oh well 😉
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I thought his name looked Latin, so I asked Gemini about it:
Fugate: This is a form of "fugatus" and is used in the same way as "fugatus," meaning "having been put to flight" or "having fled."
Tempus fugit, little feller, and so will you.
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Trump has never heard of most of these countries, so Steven Miller must have gotten his white-supremacist atlas out and made up a list of non-white nations to block. Trump's project of making the U.S. a globally hated pariah is nearly complete.
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No word on what they're doing about intentional shootings? 🤔
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Funny that every time you read about a young male sex worker being arrested, his co-arrestee always seems to be a right-wing pastor or an old, obese Republican known for his homophobic rhetoric. Well, I'm sure these are outliers--no, wait, they're not out--they're just liars.
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Good God, he holds up and gives away that stupid pen every time he signs a piece of paper, thinking that someone who receives it will treasure it as a religious relic or something. These pens should be sterilized in an autoclave before being transported to a landfill by hazmat workers.
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So this is the great Republican health care plan to replace Obamacare? Just die? In order to make sure we're doing it properly, perhaps Joni could demonstrate for us?
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Poor Lindsey. Jilted first for J.D. and then for Elon. Embittered once again, he reminds us that he's in it for the duration, and that we'll take his gold-emblazoned kneepads from his cold, dead, perfectly manicured hands.
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I used to think Trump was criminally insane; now I think he's just criminally stupid. He's playing this ridiculous tariff business like a pipe organ: 10% for you, 25% for you, 90-day delay for you, etc. He thinks his job as king is to punish his enemies and pardon his criminal accomplices.
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Really short-term thinking on the part of these capitulating law firms; even if things go well for them with the artificial protection of this ghastly parody of an administration, when it's over, history will name them as fascist collaborators. That stain won't go away in 2028.
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Every time I see this guy's bland, milquetoast face the phrase "the banality of evil" leaps to mind. To these faux-Christian hypocrites the end always justifies the means. Sort of the opposite of "Do unto others..."
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Excellent article! Informative discussion of the maga psychology, which I admit was alien to me. It still is, really, but at least now I know why.😉
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Decent people won't read it; maga types can't read it. So who's gonna buy your little tome, Jake? The RNC will probably pick up 5,000 or so, just to get it on the bestsellers lists. After that, look for it in the remainder bin, where Tapper belongs.
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These grifters come on stage with their "I'm so rational and reasonable" faces on, and then start spewing the most bizarre, ridiculous nonsense. It isn't even gaslighting, which would require a degree of finesse; they sound as though they're talking to their therapist.
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Musk has the attention span of a ferret. He lost interest in "Doge" when he saw that his chainsaw scenario wasn't winning him the universal love he craves because of his crippling insecurity. We're just grateful that his Adderall has finally kicked in; now he can move on and destroy something else.
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A demented blob waving at non-existent fans on a deserted golf course. In previous administrations this would be alarming; in the Trump administration, it's Tuesday.
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Trump hates and fears higher learning with an intensity found only in those who realize the impossibility of their own academic achievement. He loves "the poorly educated" because he is one (and Wharton would rather not talk about it). Harvard doesn't play nicely with fascists, or idiots. Or cults.
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Right, because the American people voted to have a human trafficking ring headquartered in the White House. It's not "deporting" if the person being "deported" has never been to that country and has no ties to it. It's called "kidnapping." But it's Trump, so laws be damned. JD, sit down and shut up.
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"But what about my beautiful, wavy hair extensions? My false eyelashes and impeccable make-up? I'm 53 and I'm trying my best to look like a 28 year-old Trump moll--don't I have enough on my plate without worrying about Habeas Corpus Christie--or any other town in Texas, for that matter?"
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She must be a fan of "The Most Dangerous Game," in which the poor are hunted for sport. One test for sociopathy is whether or not a person can conceive of the fact that other people have lives of their own--they're not just objects in the landscape to be used or discarded. Welcome to the 4th Reich.
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Call it the Duffy solution: "I don't have a friggin' clue what I'm supposed to do about all the plane crashes because I'm a reality TV contestant, so I'll stick a picture of Jesus on the wall--that'll placate the maganoids, and republicans are now invertebrates, so no objections there!"
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The race controversy is a mere distraction; she voted for Trump, so her tears are ambrosia.
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So what? Trump breaks the law every day and no one is doing a damn thing about it. Why is that? Doesn't your constitution account for a rogue president? Why can't the appropriate authority walk into the Oval and put the cuffs on him? Or have the Supreme Crooks given him carte blanche?
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Shouldn't these "law enforcement" thugs be wearing brown shirts?
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Trump is "very engaged" because he heard the word "commission" and thinks he'll be making a commission on college sports. Somehow. Don't bother him with the boring deets. Remember: he perceives everything through the filter of grift. (I wonder who's bought all those secret documents he stole).
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Ten thousand units? So: fourteen functional vehicles. Until someone throws a rock; then it's nine.
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I have a friend flying from Vancouver to Toronto this week; his original route had a stretch over American airspace--not to land, just fly over--and he canceled that, happy to pay more for a direct flight. If Duffy doesn't kill you with a crash, Trump'll send you to El Salvador.
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So exciting! I wonder if the new pope will be an old white man who makes up the sex rules for a billion people while officially never having had sex. Will the new guy will continue the tradition of misogyny and homophobia that pits the whole Catholic superstition against modernity? I'm thinking yes.
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The supreme crooks have always been a rubber stamp for the Republicans; whatever they want, just name it. And the 3 religious ringers Trump put on the court are true to form; their god hates anyone who isn't exactly like them. That's the whole point of organized religion: hating the right people.
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And yet she's the one working for a convict and sex offender--and now crypto-criminal, who's enriching himself by monetizing the presidency. What is it about the tiny Republican brain that it doesn't recognize irony? Or doesn't reject criminality?
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He wants to demolish any agency that investigates criminal organizations because among the three or four things that Trumps actually knows, it's when he's flirting with a RICO conviction. And he knows that his whole "administration" is criminal, though you couldn't call it organized.
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Why would Trump acknowledge the sacrifice of veterans? He's a draft dodger who calls American soldiers "suckers" and "losers." And why would he postpone a golf game at Mara Lardo just to see four of their bodies repatriated?
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Tina Fey had it right, when performing as Sarah Palin: It's hard to parody something that starts out as parody.
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Photo: on the left we have an unqualified reality TV idiot; on the right we have an unqualified reality TV predatory idiot. Neither of them belongs anywhere near the government of a democracy. Next time you board a plane, remember: these are the people they want you to trust with your safety.
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Insecurity, insecurity, all is insecurity.
The orange vulgarian wants to turn Washington into Pyongyang or Moscow, with ruinously expensive parades as spectacles of genuflection to a murderous god-thug. Boycott, and investigate the funding.
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Re: RFK Jr. there are only two options: 1) he knows he's lying, but wants to appease Trump; or 2) he actually believes the garbage that comes out of his mouth, meaning he's too stupid and dangerous for the job.
RFK Jr. --making polio sexy again!
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Trump and his minions are an organization, of sorts, that is publicly corrupt, breaking the law to profit themselves and their donors with utter impunity. Why isn't the whole damn administration up on RICO charges? Read the definition of RICO and tell me it's not a portrait of Trump & his stooges.
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So they want a Catholic school to be funded by taxpayers? I assume this means the Catholic church will start paying taxes? Or do they believe they have the divine right to double-dip?
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Oh, my! He'd have to remove his diaper first.