jbtakenote.bsky.social
Hi, I’m Jim. Father of 4 kids, plus one really weird, supercute dog. I’m a digital travel marketing professional who cut his teeth in politics. Hobbyist musician, musicologist, cook and DnD player - all since I was a kid. Lots to say!
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Correction - Senator Weinberg was the majority leader of the NJ State Senate (apologies) and she was on your program several times in 2014 during the “Bridgegate” scandal.
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My home town and forever a hot bed of progressive activism even when Bergen County NJ around it was very red!!
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It is even more
Odious when you realize that he is going to make Zelensky and the entirety of the Ukraine pay because President Zelensky refused to provide him with dirt on Joe Biden that didn’t even exist.
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This is the best State of the Union response I’ve seen my lifetime - and these speeches are really tough to pull off. Senator Slotkin clearly means what she says and she’s pulling no punches.
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Trump himself, of course. He’s bloviating. Maybe for Joe Biden, who he’s managed to mention more than anybody else (mostly while lying)
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No Mike, paying rally attendees is what Trump does. The last time we saw organized, organic protests like this was right before the GOP got clocked in the 2018 midterms. And ignoring angry constituents does not mean they’ll go away. In fact, that just makes them angrier.
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This is why we in RI love our amazing Senator Whitehouse - he’s a dogged fighter against corruption and incompetence and he tells it like it is!
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DOJ already put an end to the investigation divisions that directly impact Russian political meddling on the US and oligarch crimes. This is disgusting
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Thus Trump gets his revenge against Zelensky for not helping in the sham takedown of Biden before the 2020 election. Because having the now corrupted DOJ and FBI do it only works if you can haul him into court.
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One of Trump’s biggest priorities is his vendetta against political enemies both real and imagined (mostly imagined). Today’s little double-team bullying was baby Donnie’s revenge on Zelensky because he wouldn’t play ball and dig up fake dirt on Biden.
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It’s the plot of an all new movie: 000 - Shit for Brains
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The supposed “Leader of the Free World” just endorsed ethnic cleansing in order to develop beachfront property. This is beyond insane.
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Shiny,loony disco ball distraction so the media will cover it instead of Elon Musk’s Unitary takeover and destruction of our government.
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Let’s hear it for AG Ellison! This is the kind of rhetoric we need in the public square - as the legal actions against this behave tend to proceed a bit too quietly…
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Trump will let a Senator have that much runway over his cabinet pick? Doubt it.
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What’s MAGA going to do when Musk decides it’s time to remove Trump and make himself dictator?
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This is going to be his answer for every single thing that goes wrong in his administration - and with a Trump administration that will be a lot.
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We need a vanguard on the left to get on social media and on streaming media ASAP. If mainstream media won’t allow a strong pro-democracy voice to counter Fox and the rest of the right wing propagandists we need a foothold somewhere else with high reach to report on the truth!
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So basically this is a speech all about him (no surprise) plus him ginning up the base by signing executive orders to defeat crises he made up during campaign and don’t really exist. I’m sure @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social agrees this is pretty prototypical authoritarian speech.
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But intellectual competency, like science and facts dissolve under the torrent of grievance and loyalty requirements. Bottom line is that the MAGA GOP doesn’t care about meaningful governance of any sort, only feeding the hate machine that drives their power base.
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It was exactly as expected. He lied, disseminated and flat out filibustered the room. And I don’t know what was worse - Hegseth’s testimony or the Republican Senators that were fawning all over him.
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How about a 2 for 1 and we also throw in Texas?
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Where’s JD’s cat?
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Yes but Pam Bondi? Maybe her scandal du jour isn’t as gross as Gaetz or Hegseth, but as Atty Gen in FL she dropped her investigation of Trump University after Donald sent her a good sized campaign contribution - pretty corrupt, I’d say.
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Score one for the rule of law!!!
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Totally troll him…
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I see Netanyahu is already claiming that this warrant is anti-Semitic. In my opinion as somebody who is Jewish, you’ve got no right to use that as a defense when the world is watching you do to the Palestinian people exactly what anti-Semites want to do to you. The evil is exactly the same.
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@joycewhitevance.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social Perhaps one of you has an answer. I certainly don’t remember this power from my constitutional law class…
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They’ve ridden the culture wars to so much power including - at least in part - the most recent election. I think the GOP wouldn’t know what to do if the debate was an intellectual discussion about how to spend our tax money. That doesn’t frighten their voters enough!
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Agreed but I bet it leaks by then. Thankfully, the knives are out for Gaetz. I’m more concerned that in return for this almost unanimity, we will be forced to endure Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr - all of whom are equally disqualified and dangerous.
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2/ The left does nothing like this but often bends over backwards to sanewash or normalize the gaslighting and insanity on the right so they look balanced in their coverage. As if the old rules around journalism mean anything close to what they used to.
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1/ The two sides in media could not be more different. The right has a media cult bubble that repeats stories that are obviously and provably false over and over with the same messaging across channels in the bubble. It’s pure propaganda.