grouchosghost.bsky.social
Old school independent who likes history (especially military and political history), film, music, nature, books.
Factio republicana delenda est
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Hey, did you know that John Bonham was a Hall and Oates fan?
faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-one-1970s-pop-album-that-john-bonham-adored-he-loved-that-kind-of-vibe/
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We called it Social Studies in the '80s.
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The US has always been a wobbly democracy. The wealthy and the powerful have always tried to run things behind the scenes, and often they have.
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Rita was actually Hispanic, but with Hollywood's help was able to pass for white.
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The Dick and the Dictator.
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Yes, every bad thing Trump does will be because Biden pardoned Hunter, lol.
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But the originalists also argue for decades that the right to privacy (the basis of Roe) was invented by the Warren Court.
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"But it says WILL HIKE TARIFFS right on the box, sir."
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I block dozens of accounts every day.
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It always takes this long to count the votes in CA after a major election.
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He's done nothing to be reported about. I'm just going to block him.
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Why do you keep changing the subject? Trump's not going to pick a Democrat.
And no, he's going to cut taxes for the rich.
Tariffs will be a tax on EVERYONE.
It's no wonder you support Trump. You're a hopelessly confused and ignorant person.
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So if the courts have found people guilty who later turned out to be innocent, you clearly wouldn't believe them if Gaetz was convicted, would you?
Some things are plainly visible to anyone who eyes to see and a functioning brain.
I don't like Pam Bondi, but she's not a rapist & drug user.
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That's how they'll deal with any future pandemic here. Just deny that it's happening.
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You know how many criminals have gone scot free throughout human history?
You don't care, which pretty much sums your crippled morality.
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GOP members of Congress have said publicly that he's bragged about having sex with underage girls, drug use and other things.
Why did he quit early instead of staying until January? Why was he the only vote against a human trafficking bill in 2017?
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Matt Gaetz does.
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And you belong to neither one.
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Though he did say in his resignation letter he would not be coming back in January for the next term.
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He would probably have quit anyway.
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Ancient Roman bikinis.
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I guess his death has not been officially confirmed.
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I've been watching the GOP play this culture war game since 1988 with Willie Horton, flag burning and the Pledge of Allegiance. They're shamelessly good at distracting a country full of poorly informed, disengaged voters.
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She's on Twitter and still looks amazing.
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Also a religious nut.
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Mamie Van Doren, I believe.
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Fuentes is apparently off the Trump train.
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It will create conflicts in policy and world chaos. Maybe that's the point.
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Trump is appointing people without any strategic thought. Hegseth is a Bush-era hawk supporting war against the Islamic world, and Gabbard is a tankie leftist friendly with Assad. What do they have in common? How will they work together?
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We're already back to the 50s.
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That's an extreme position. I've been interested in various theories about ancient history and archaeology all my life, and I'm not an anti-vaxxer or a kook right-winger.
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2 weeks and they're alright fighting with each other.
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I actually read about this years ago, I think it was in David Talbot's book Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years.
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I'm still on Twitter, but I thought I'd join up here as well.