alphlipp.bsky.social
80s musician who now does nothing but complain
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Be more Transparent that DOGE. Follow the money, have the amounts. Just coming with a single marketing bullet point is not going to convince any MAGA I know.
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They do a bad job of it. All my credit cards are well above 20%. I keep them paid off but still … must be a loophole somewhere.
Rather than attempt to market single, salient points it would be better to honestly deconstruct what it does, what it has done, various cases—full transparency.
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Also you have to get it out there. I never heard Democrats talk about, not in press conferences, not anytime Biden spoke. Never heard anything about this or that anything was being done, what the money way and what would be saved. If they would speak to the tax payers in English that would help.
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Of course they don’t want their largess actually cut, they are as much a part of the government blob as anybody. Why wouldn’t they say it in public? Because it’s not what their constituents want, it’s not what the people who voted for them want. And nobody should get special dispensation.
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Why it comes up saying Undefined it Bluesky I don’t know.
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Good to see more clarity here. It would be nice to see more of it coming from DOGE. Would have been nice if it were already available from USAID. Would be nice if Musk wasn’t muddying the waters *of his own project*. That being said, I fully support a forensic audit of every dollar spent.
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I’m not sure what you are saying here. Do you mean that the Twitter files were falsified, or unimportant, or represented good things that were treated as bad things by people too ignorant to understand? Or something else?
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It's performative. They aren't serious.
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The neural link port.
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Fire departments actually focusing on fighting fires is so passé.
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Also I will note that bill was authored and introduced into the house by Texas Republican Michael McCaul.
mccaul.house.gov/media-center...
www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...
But now I know more of the specifics than I did previously, which is good. Always good to do more research!
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Absolutely not; religious cult-like devotion to a given party or labeled ideology over new factual information is a pointless and self-defeating. It becomes worship based on faith rather than a pursuit of knowledge. I value being correct (to the limits of my current knowledge) over labels. Will read
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Really? Rand Paul killed the original separate bill? And here I was blaming it on Chuck Schumer. Shame on me. Anyway, I’m guessing he didn’t kill it when it passed as separate legislation Saturday by unanimous vote. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/u... Hopefully NYT isn’t too right-wing for you.
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I don’t feel you are serious about engaging in conversation here. But you seem satisfied with the narrative you have chosen; not sure why you are pretending to argue about it.
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They probably correctly judged it would not work well for them in the context of the campaign. I suspect that kind of energy would have hurt more than helped.
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Biden drove up the cost of everything I pay for, so there’s that.
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Trump didn’t do that either, (more a Chuck Schumer thing, as the house passed that bill with a Republican majority a year ago and the Democrat run senate would not bring it to the floor) so it would be better to focus on actual things Trump has done that were bad, or that Bid did that were good.
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The actually story is that Republicans passed that bill a year ago, with far more Democrats voting against it, and then the Democrat led senate let it sit without a vote for a year. Not only were Republicans champions of that legislation, the only reason it didn’t happen a year ago is the Dems.
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If that’s a serious meme then no, they cannot.
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Otherwise known as a biological weapon.
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I forget, who did Jesus assassinate in the street to express frustration at a problem he admitted he didn’t know much about?
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You raise an important point. If they can enrich our country so much then why haven’t they been able to enrich their native land? And if they have to enrich us, why can’t they do it legally?
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It will be all right. 60 cents more for avocados would be a price worth paying.
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Truer words have never been spoken. Look at you spitting facts! 😀
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Citizens could pick our crops and mow our lawns? I used to mow my own lawn, I understand that can still be done. Guy who mows my lawn now is an American. Turns out Americans know how to pick crops and mow lawns, too.
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Regarding the Butterfly symbol, I would tend to put that it the same category as the OK hand symbol of touching finger and thumb together being a white supremacist salute. Butterflies are butterflies. The preponderance of MAPs on BlueSky is its own indicator, and they don’t get to appropriate bflies
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Absolutely, that will really make people come over to their side rather than think: good god did dodge a bullet electing Trump. Imagine these people in the halls of power.
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I’m sure some would like that to happen but I expect those voices to lose. They would lose so many people that have stayed on their side until now they could not possibly hope to govern. And enough people who like their own positions know this.
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Not George Soros and Obama. But certainly former Obama staffers and cabinet members out to protect their own gigs. And Jill Biden.
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You need to listen to at least 5 episodes before you actually BEGIN to get it. If you listen to one or half of one and think “oh I know what this is” … you are wrong. I guarantee it.
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They do not possess any shame.
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But it’s all about incentives. And power. If the presidential pardon is being abused, perhaps Congress should unite to curtail it.
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As noted elsewhere, I am not worried about this pardon. Even without pardons it’s a two-tier justice system and always will be. However neither H.W. Bush or Jimmy Carter pardoned a family member—that’s something AI is saying but is not true. Clinton did, however.
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“Subway killer” … Daily Mail needs to just fuck off.
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I like Bluesky a lot. Better than X in some ways and so much better than Threads. Despite this it will not beat X and half the people who left X in a flurry of virtue-signaling will return.
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Why can’t they just keep the public reasonably in the loop? I do not understand.
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I declare the END OF TWITTER.
I mean X. The end of X!
As John C. Dvorak goes, so goes the culture.
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.. challenges to improve. But, won't surprise me either way if Republicans lose or gain seats in 2026, and wouldn't surprise me at all if the Democrats take the Whitehouse and probably the house in 2028. I feel like there will be more frequent changes in whose in power in the future.
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Once the facts on the ground change, in terms of winning elections, strategies will change to win them. Which is probably ultimately a good thing. No matter how good we believe our side's policies to be, chances are that's not always true, or they need to make their way through some hostile ...