michaeldkerrigan.bsky.social
Writer BassPlayer Sceptic Atheist Relativist Progressive Egalitarian Anti-Fascist
We must replace #FossilFuel with #RenewableEnergy & build a #GreenNewDeal
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“I deny nothing but doubt everything.”
—Lord Byron
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Does the fumbling and breaking of this trophy by Vance not seem an apt metaphor for what the Trump administration is doing to the USA.
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“Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s overestimation of himself; this estimation he will endeavor to foster by all means in his power; he will therefore delight in the company of flatterers and parasites & avoid the company of high-minded [wo]men, who value him according to his deserts.”
—Spinoza
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Trump's fuckery is far more hurtful to the American People than that of King George ever was.
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'O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
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“And Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia.”
―George Orwell, 1984
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
—James Baldwin
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“Your religion [Donnie] serves you only for an excuse for your faults but is no incentive to your virtue.”
—Henry Fielding
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Because Trump, Vance, and Rubio are just as depraved as Putin?
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The people bowed and prayed,
To the gold-plated turd they made.
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This is the political movement that we need.
We cannot make things right with a 10 or 15 degree change in course. We must turn this ship around.
Being #RepublicanLite isn't good enough, the Democrats have to become the #Progressive party.
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All the right stuff?
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Like the gun control measures, at Gov Reagan's insistence, that the California legislature took when the Black Panthers armed themselves.
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I'll support Democrats who are not satisfied with just not being as bad as Republicans. We need to turn this ship around, And that means aggressively #Progressive legislators.
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"Proud to be an American."
Like he did something special to get born here?
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“[conservative] Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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This is what plutocrats expect of the USG: tax dollars spent only on grants & subsidies for the corporations that enrich them; low-cost energy; lax, if any, regulations that curtail corporate earnings; low taxes & wages, & minimal spending on safety nets for the poor & the sick.
#GetOutTheVote2026.
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Trump is a low functioning sociopath—a trait common to conmen—an instinctive predator—adept at winning over marks & defrauding them. He’s skilled at assessing victims’ fears & desires & lures them in, building trust with lies that are not immediately obvious to those being conned.
#GetOutTheVote2026
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Apparently, when one owns Congress, the Justice Department, and the Supreme Court they are, de facto, above the law.
“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom those who wish to tyrannize will put shackles upon sleeping men.”
—Voltaire
#GetOutTheVote2026
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“The [GOP] is split between the wealthy & privileged establishment, devoted to the interests of their class & a popular base mobilized when the establishment commitments to wealth & privilege became so extreme that it would be impossible to garner votes by presenting them accurately.”
—Noam Chomsky
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“Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.”
– Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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“The [GOP] has become split between the wealthy & privileged establishment devoted to the interests of their class & a popular base mobilized when establishment commitments to wealth & privilege became so extreme it would be impossible to garner votes by presenting them accurately.”
—Noam Chomsky
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It's how Orwell described the British Empire as "A benevolent despotism with theft as its final object. The official held the native down, while the businessman went through his pockets.”
—George Orwell
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All of Trump's Cabinet members appear to be playing dress-up, Do they not?
They certainly do not seem to be operating in a real-world manner.
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“Hobbes was the true…philosopher of the bourgeoisie…he realized that acquisition of wealth conceived as a never-ending process can be guaranteed only by the seizure of political power, for the accumulating process must sooner or later force upon all existing territorial limits.”
—Hannah Arendt
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"Dan smiled as he pulled on the pop-top. 'The point is, we
shouldn’t think too highly of ourselves. Earth could survive
quite nicely without people but not without dung beetles.'”
- Michael D Kerrigan, 'CAUSE WE'RE THE COPS OF THE WORLD
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@therepublicanparty.bsky.social:
“Do you think yourself Christian if you oppress the poor…? If you enrich yourself by making others poor? If you wring your food from others’ tears?”
—Fastidius
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The plutocrats, through the lies & skulduggery of their political stooges, propaganda mills, & agitprop media, have convinced a large segment of American voters that:
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
We must start now to #GetOutTheVote in 2026 if we expect to turn things around.
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Unfortunately, many who rely on #Medicaid are among those least likely to vote.
A strong voter turnout thwarts the #GOP agenda, which is why they are so focused on limiting the vote and why a strong campaign to increase voter turnout is the only tactic that might put an end to their kleptocracy.
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When voting is restricted, limited to those less likely to dissent, the powerful and wealthy can more easily control elections.
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How can We the People be expected to respect the rule of law when lawmakers and enforcers so flagrantly flout it?
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“And Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia.”
―George Orwell, 1984
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We know where this is going, don't we?
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The "invisible hand" has become visible.
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The United States was not founded as a Christian nation but it quickly became one. With ratification of the Constitution and its separation of church and state the established Church of England lost its absolute power and a myriad of evangelical cults & itinerant preachers came out of the woodwork.
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Politicians who clamor for government to be run like a business look to profit by it.
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Yeah, great line.
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Everyone has a purpose in life if only to serve as a model of what not to be.