jhagar.bsky.social
Retired cardiologist, hiker, lonely political moderate, strong #Ukraine supporter. Apparently political moderates are now considered radicals so I will need to start acting like a radical. I will always be kind to you but please no whataboutism.
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Also, plans to cut off intelligence to Canada and Ukraine and end vaccine research in the works and cut 800B from Medicaid, a tightly run program with almost no fat or fraud that will be devastating and impeach a judge who ruled against the administration.
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Seems like people in Georgia are freer to express political dissent than in the US.
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“At Putin’s request”. You couldn’t make these things up.
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Mark Elias is very eloquent, thanks for sharing. But they don’t care. They mock people who care, for pleasure.
Also my burning question is if David had a giant in his army why didn’t David have HIM fight Goliath??
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Like the relation between the boyars and the tsar, or Putin and the oligarchs, or mobsters and the mob boss. They have power as long as they stay subservient.
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He’ll fit in well with the new administration.
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That would solve the debate among presidential historians about whether Trump or James Buchanan was the worst.
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And all the special counsels and all the fbi directors, the list goes on and on. Suckers.
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This is why Dems always shoot themselves in the foot. “We have to appoint a conservative Republican to prove to people who couldn’t care less that we are impartial” bowing to the false belief that we are incapable of being impartial but republicans are. Republicans: “f- you losers you are idiots”.
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I hope everyone starts saying that
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They’ll find a way, like in 2020.
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Indifference is not the right word for this.
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*media
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Corporate meeting and our nation will regret this capitulation to authoritarianism one day, but it will be too late by then.
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I hope we have finally understood what we should have known all along: Trump says what he plans to do and then he tries to do it. Every insane statement. He is utterly dishonest about facts but completely honest about intentions and plans. They are just so outrageous that liberals refuse to believe.
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We’ve done a very poor job for the past 30 years explaining that executive branch employees are dedicated, proud of being nonpartisan, understaffed and underpaid. Instead we’ve gone along listening to them being demonized and didn’t push back, thinking there were no consequences. Now this.
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I once threw my Motorola flip phone, that was built like a tank, out my car window in anger across 4 lanes of traffic and it barely had a scratch. I’m not proud of that, but I am proud of the phone.
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What has gradually dawned on me is not that he is ill informed about science, but the horrible realization that he knows all of this very well and that the point of all of it is to eliminate vaccines without stating it explicitly, but by using this argument as a strategy.
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DEI is only an excuse.
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If it struck the earth would it prove that Trump is the Antichrist? Asking for a friend.
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All available evidence points in that direction. #exegesis #antichrist
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I’m not a believer in revenge, but justice, when the opportunity arises in the future, demands it. They only understand power. They have been at war with democracy for decades, but most of us were too naive to know it.
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The coup in our country succeeded, unfortunately.
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No. This is only the first step. The patronage is starting next to fill the spots that have been cleared. That has been the explicitly stated plan all along. And since they are outside of civil service it will be completely corrupt.
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Attack, when it doesn’t go well make a fake treaty, regroup, massacre everyone. Here is a shocking chronicle that is a must read. threadreaderapp.com/thread/14953...
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Drugs are what you might call “gangster-priced” based on “how much is it worth to you?”
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Bet that’ll be a one way conversation.
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I tell my christian friends that he is the Antichrist. I don’t know if that works, but it matches the available data.
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I thought these people were fools but I realized that they are just liars (and fools). The age of remorseless bald face lying as the norm is here. One hallmark of authoritarianism.
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No, they’ll do anything he asks. It is that he doesn’t care and he knows not everything could pass.
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All of Russian history, before during and after the Soviet era, confirms this, which they have done over and over and over (and successfully) but no one understands it in the US and Western Europe except those who have lived through it, or have studied history (which politicians no longer do).
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Dems should abstain from voting and let the current regime pass all their cuts so people can see who they really are. People won’t listen to media for a truth they refuse to believe but they will understand when it affects them directly.
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Since content moderation and balance are sadly a thing of the past, and the fact that the balkanization of the media sphere is near complete anyway, can civil litigation become the new content moderation?
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Or train 10,000 young activists to make their case saturating social media, which is the only thing people listen to.
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I won’t blame them but I think by giving in, the impact of their initial resistance is negated and inconsequential. And corrupted. How did it end for those in the first administration who stayed to “try to be a moderating force” or in the Soviet era? Never well.
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If I were them I’d start a very public task force to study how Canadians, by adding 10 new US states and 20 senators, can take over the US political system and bend the levers of power to allow Canadians to achieve political and economic domination.
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The press shouldn’t call it a peace plan if it doesn’t even include Ukraine in the negotiations. It’s a unilateral plan by the great powers for the future of Ukraine like in Afghanistan.