guydoesjob.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

If your adversary can't believe their luck, either you're very, very bad at negotiating, or you don't think they're your adversary.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 4 days ago • 568 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 7 days ago • 275 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 6 days ago • 479 comments

Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

America's greatest force multiplier and global strength has been its network of allies. Popular lore now sees them as a burden. So America is killing its alliances. The Trump-Musk-Vance administration's moves are an act of epic self-harm.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

if we had to listen to SPEECHES from A LITTLE GIRL, surely it’s fine to give the richest person in the world free rein to shutter and dismantle US agencies with global impacts and grant him unchecked access to all the confidential information held by the government.

submitted 9 days ago • 81 comments

Kash Patel isn’t stupid per se but he’s going to encounter people a lot smarter than he is who are going to allow him to hang himself, both by resignations and by letting him broadcast his crimes.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The URLs are kind of a red herring here. They were probably used for trolling. But an imagehost for sharing encrypted, untraceable images with no logging on Discord and other social media... Anyone with any kind of Trust and Safety background knows exactly what it was intended to be used for.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

In the Soviet Bloc, the Communist Party assigned political minders/ commissars to every school, factory, army unit, etc to ensure ideological compliance and loyalty to the regime. Hiring was based on class background and demonstrated loyalty. Obviously, this is very different.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

So basically Elon Musk and his team of Dogie Howsers, none of whom have gone through any security clearances or background checks from what I can tell, are going from one federal agency to another doing a couple Edward Snowden's per day...and not even for any plausibly believable principled reason.

submitted 16 days ago • 36 comments

Best headline since the election: succinct and accurate and the only place I've read it so far www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Marco Rubio became Secretary of State so he could have the privilege of sounding like a two-bit Free Republic poster from 15 years ago

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Don Beyer said about USAID, says it's no coincidence "that Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man with billions of dollars of investment in China, is doing China's bidding."

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Encouraging.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The fact there isn’t a Dem member of Congress with them…

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

1. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law. 2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc. 3. Be public about how illegal all of this is 4. Lay out a plan

submitted 20 days ago • 197 comments

JPMORGAN: “.. the size of a sustained 25% tariff hike will be large enough to throw the Mexican and Canadian economies into recession, and this outcome will be our inclination if these policies are maintained for six months.”

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

JPMORGAN: “.. this weekend’s actions challenge our underlying view that the Trump administration will strive to limit disruptive policies .. “.. In short, the risk is that the policy mix is tilting (perhaps unintentionally) into a business-unfriendly stance.”

submitted 20 days ago • 39 comments

The press needs to be asking Musk, Trump, press secretary, & any Sunday show guest, why is Musk accessing the Treasury payment system?, who is working for Musk on this?, are they govt officials?, have they had background checks?, and what is the legal authority for stopping payments?

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

These are deals he negotiated.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 30 days ago • 1264 comments

An odd thing with both the "is it a Nazi salute" and "did Trump believe his own lies / election" stuff is this reflexive need by tons of people to believe something can be bad only if it was understood by the person as bad, but since we cannot know to metaphysical certainty their mind, it can't be

submitted 33 days ago • 67 comments

"If you committed violence on that day [Jan. 6] obviously you shouldn't be pardoned. And there is a little bit of gray area there." -- JD Vance, eight days ago. Trump pardoned basically all of them tonight

submitted 33 days ago • 48 comments

ESPN with a quick commercial break - kickoff - commercial break. Riley Leonard alone just demolishing tonight's Rinvoq Quota.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

The moment Vivek criticized native-born Americans and praised the work ethic of brown-skinned immigrants, he crossed a line with MAGA than can never be recrossed.

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

You may not have a billion dollars but your dignity is all yours

submitted 34 days ago • 78 comments

We can do both!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

(Axios) - The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/d...

submitted 35 days ago • 242 comments

I think it’s very important for Republican women to know that Pete Hegseth’s accuser is a married mom and a highly respected Republican aide, who went to the police immediately after the assault. They still don’t believe her. Your fascism will not save you from their misogyny.

submitted 39 days ago • 29 comments

thanks for the helpful info, google futurism.com/google-image...

submitted 41 days ago • 54 comments

BRENNAN: Do you expect though that Republicans will still help Californians in need even if they don't like their local politics and the party? SEN. BARRASSO: I expect there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved ...

submitted 42 days ago • 730 comments