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bobg.whizbang.me
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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

🎶 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 🎶

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?"

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

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

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.

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

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.

Deeply envious of Canada. Needing a domestic win.

Just like the tariffs themselves. Checks out.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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