constantcait.bsky.social
Childless cat lady in WNC. Lifelong red-state progressive. I like a lot of stuff, but mostly music, nature, art, books and food. You know, good things.
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All of the War on Terror funding trickled down over the years to our police so they have a bunch of crazy war weaponry now. And the Department of Homeland Security - also from the GWOT - is apparently burning through cash like a Trump casino. This mess has been decades in the making.
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Once my brain stopped shortcircuiting at "no one protested Bush/Cheney," I read the rest and agree.
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Bush's image rehab only came later. By the time he left office in 2008, it was hard to find people who would admit to supporting him. He only regained anything after 47 rolled up and was so awful he made Dubya look like Churchill in comparison.
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If he's an opportunist, he's playing a very long game with outcomes that are far from certain.
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It's very sad that in a so-called Christian nation, the notion that being poor isn't a crime punishable by death is a radical one.
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Everyone's like "this is part of a scheme!" and I'm like "or - hear me out - this is what mentally unstable megalomaniacs do."
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If I were Tiffany I would take this "least favored child" status as a blessing in disguise.
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I was a longtime listener of the Stern show and when conservative Christians started talking about him like he was literally sent by God, I was like "you've got to be fucking kidding me." But considering how many right-wing churches harbor sex pests, I guess it tracks.
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We have a hundred pictures of him basically molesting Ivanka from the time she was 8, so the idea that he was at the Epstein parties isn't far fetched. It's not even fetched. We all know he was there.
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Tapper is like
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I completely agree with the person you're talking to. This is doing far more to put the bill in jeopardy than anything the Democrats or the parliamentarian or angry voters could do. Let's make it work in our favor.
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I guess we'll see! I feel like the likeliest thing is that there is a plan but that it's really stupid.
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Yeah but is he really controlling the judiciary, the press, etc.? He's trying but is it happening? I'm not so sure. In fact, I'm seeing rebellion everywhere.
If he had been a smarter, tougher man, maybe this would be a different story, but he's a weak, vain, elderly man. Don't believe his hype.
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It's a huge flaw in this plan. Part of 47's success is due to the fact that he's an entertainer who has been famous for a half-century. JD Vance not only doesn't have that, but he's actively negatively charismatic.
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Are you sure? Both of these guys are thin skinned, mentally unstable, undisciplined megalomaniacs. They both do a ton of drugs. That this is real would actually track.
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It should be clear by now that these people are not the impenetrably brilliant masterminds we've told ourselves they are.
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I'd forgotten about the responsibilititty
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Great, can't wait to see the reports where inflation is -2% and growth is 75%.
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I had to look up "kayfabe" and when I saw the definition, I was like "oh, totally." I don't trust anything be does.
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Has Senator Voldemort talked at all about any of this? Or has he wisely decided to not draw attention to this inconvenient fact?
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I'll never understand how these guys spent all this time scheming to do these things but never bothered to come up with legit cover stories for their actions. They wrote a fucking 900-page book about their plans. Surely they had enough brainpower to come up with believable bullshit.
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It's an understandable response. What's happening is so insane that it doesn't seem real.
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At some point these consultants need to start learning from their own failures, because they're the ones who keep pushing the same ideas over and over again.
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The only thing they were duped about was their belief that they could support this without catching any blowback. Utterly delusional.
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Yeah, these guys are so ensconced in their little bubbles that they don't understand how the rest of us actually are, and that many of us are not likely to be as easily cowed as they seem to think.
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Kamala was right about how deeply unserious they are
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Who calls it "bacon, cheese, and egg"???
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Yeah, I mean, this crew is all pretty foolish and yet they're running roughshod over us. We wouldn't stand a chance against competent fascists (although it does seem like there's something to fascism that seems to select for entitled incompetence... )
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We need to have a very hard national conversation about how we all let these nincimpoops wreck our country. Because they're clearly not competent, and yet... here we are.
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I just learned 47 pardoned this guy on his second day in office, so yeah Republicans are going to have to forgive me if I'm not buying their concerns about public safety. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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Bare mins, banning the internet would make people have to actually talk to each other face to face again, which at this point I think would do wonders for us in so many ways. And I say this as an awkward introvert too.
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Yeah the plan to give massive tax breaks while also paying for the Global War on Terror (including two twenty-year wars on the other side of the world) was not the most fiscally responsible thing I've ever seen in my life.
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You can really get a sense of how chaotic and muddled some thinking is based on comments left on social media. It seems like it's an exhausting way to live.
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I always remember how Richard Feynman said that if you can't explain something to a high schooler, you don't understand it well enough yourself. Being able to read something complex and break it down into layperson's language is how you know you understand the subject. Lot of people don't get this.
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It's been crazy to closely watch American politics for 25 years and to see how many people have not clued into the fact that the GOP only cares about the debt when they can beat Democrats up with it.