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bobg.whizbang.me
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submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Decades of identifying with heroes battling villains in the movies did not prepare me for the dread that accompanies being on the receiving end of real-life malice.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

God, we were so close to a post-scarcity society.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Which administration member suggested distracting the national attention away from this week's Trump blunders by having the media talk about an elderly president who's mentally unfit? I'd like to buy that person a drink.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Are you amazed that one increasingly feeble-minded old con man has the power to do so much damage to the Republic so quickly? He doesn't. It takes a whole ecosystem of complicit lawmakers and media barons.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 26 days ago • 356 comments

We're all angry about Trump supporters' double standards. (Hillary's emails: RAGE! Hegseth's texts: Shrug. Etc.) What if it's not hypocrisy, but just suggestibility? Their opinions are the ones they hear most, or most recently. Dems can win the propaganda game - if they'd just play it.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🎶 What do you get when you take away rights? Starting some trade wars and picking some fights? Voter support disappearing like smoke J.D. just waiting to invoke The twenty-fifth ame-endment 🎶

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

One of the great tragedies of America, but a telling one, is that the lesson people took away from Wall Street (1987) was "Greed is good," and not "How many yachts can you water-ski behind?"

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

We didn't realize then that this was not an over-the-top cartoon villain but a dire warning.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Paradoxically, science is about _not_ trusting, and instead independently challenging and verifying results, which is what makes it trustworthy.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The neighborhood's on fire. Embers are flying all around. You turn on the garden hose and douse your roof and your walls. That's vaccination.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Trump: Make do with 1/15th of what you have.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I met Jeff Bezos privately in 1999. He told me he was not a nice kid. He believed he was smarter than everyone else, and told them so. Everyone thought he was a jerk. He liked it when his family moved. It was another chance “not to be a jerk this time.” I think it's time for another move, Jeff.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Deeply envious of Canada. Needing a domestic win.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Just like the tariffs themselves. Checks out.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

If the Democrats were unanimous - even the good ones - there must be some ten-dimensional-chess strategy I'm not seeing. But why give Trump _anything_ he wants? At this point it's just providing aid and comfort to the enemy. Hoping @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social can help me understand.

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submitted 43 days ago • 287 comments

My secret hope: they ram through every vote-rigging and vote-suppressing measure they can dream up, and still get trounced next November.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

If resistance were futile, they wouldn't bother trying to convince us it was.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Yes officer, I had - ahhh - three thousand in cash. Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

This is literally a quote from the satirical comic strip "The Wizard of Id," which focused on a "tyrannical, dwarfish monarch...ruling a rundown and oppressed shabby kingdom." economicsociology.org/2015/08/28/r...

submitted 49 days ago • 109 comments

What part of "love thy neighbor" did you not understand? Maybe "thy." Means "your." Idiots.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

The protests are not for Trump to see, they are so you can all see each other and grow. It's not the protest itself that tyrants are afraid of, but the networks and community you can grow from them. Your strength is your unity and that's why the enemy thrives by demoralizing and dividing you. #3E

submitted 50 days ago • 150 comments