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barry-semple.bsky.social
drumming, motorcycling, outdoorsing, breathing… “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire
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So, when a group of armed unidentifiable masked men approach you, yell that you are under arrest for ________(?), accost & zip tie you, and then put you in an unmarked van, we are being told to be cool about it. Cuz this is literally happening in our nation…

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Red hats emblazoned with the word “TACO” in gold thread. Yes, please…

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah- they (Democratic pols) need to go there. Cut the shit and calmly yet coarsely call the MAGA Party out…

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We are nearly at the point that the Administration could stick the heads of humans on spikes on the WH lawn and America would “be concerned”…

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

So I never figured the adage, ‘You’ve got to spend money to make money’ was a reference to to paying for access to a U.S. President. “Donate” to the inauguration? Access and profit. Buy millions of his crypto-BS? Access and profit. Buy a membership to MaL? Access and profit.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Oh. Shit. I just read a few paragraphs. It is nauseatingly fascistic in the Orwellian language. Journalists and Congress REALLY need to highlight this…

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

💯 💯 💯…

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 40 days ago • 563 comments

Bull and Roz wouldn't have let that happen to judge Harry Stone.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

“You can always say no”…

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

submitted 43 days ago • 1618 comments

The corruption, in other words, is another day that ends in “y”…

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

the thing about Hegseth is he's a symbol of just how bad it is to have a guy who knows fuck-all about being President at the desk. everybody else around him is to some degree another Hegseth. Hegsethism is the ideology of this presidency. quick somebody commission me to write a study of Hegesethism

submitted 45 days ago • 131 comments

Can we all now finally agree on two things that are crystal clear- 1. If the current Administration says it will do something, it won’t. 2. If the current Administration says it will not to do something, they will. It makes guessing what they are up to SO much easier…

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What with the amount of compromised and incompetent people at the heads of NatSec related agencies, and Musk’s pimpled posse having created backdoors to extremely sensitive information, the case for a cyberattack by an adversary becomes WHEN, not IF…

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Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

submitted 46 days ago • 246 comments

So, have Pete Hegseth’s wife, brother, and personal lawyer been detained and questioned about their knowledge and involvement being privy to classified/top secret information? Who else has this information? Isn’t that supposed to happen? Or, are we Ginni Thomas’ing this? Chop, chop #Congress…

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