multiversewanderer.bsky.social
"With fear for our democracy, I dissent."
- Justice Sotomayor
"There will come a day when Donald Trump will be gone, but your dishonor will remain."
- Liz Cheney
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire
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47 will try to pull some lame stunt like declaring a 'state of emergency' to put the election on hold, then never lift it. I know that sounds crazy, but would you have believed he would incite an insurrection at the capitol before it actually happened?
No. Because you're normal. 47 is not.
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So many reasons for the world to hate America anew. That's 47's idea of Making American Great Again.
As a nation we voted that asshole into office. We deserve everything we get in return.
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Couldn't hurt, but I wonder if it will help. Maybe for those who haven't been keeping up.
Those who have know full well that with Trump there is no bottom. Nothing anyone might reveal would surprise me.
Though proof of wrongdoing might well establish the US as a pariah nation.
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One must wonder what qualifies as "waste and fraud" in our Narcissist-in-Chief's mind....
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My sister worked at a hardware store. The radio was on a classic rock station, and one young guy heard the DJ mention Paul McCartney sang lead and co-wrote the Beatles song that just played.
The kid said, "Wait - Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"
Sis felt like 30 years passed in a second
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"Best" in TrumpWorld means 'most willing to do Trump's bidding, no matter how stupid or damaging - even deadly - that might be.'
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In fact, this is the primary reason the GOP has hated the IRS since forever.
Attacking the IRS for 'waste and fraud' is like killing your golden goose because you're hungry. NO ONE is that stupid.
This is ALL about the wealthy skipping out on paying their fair share. Welfare for the rich.
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Exactly. This is Robber Barons 2.0. Does anyone think the original Robber Barons gave a rat's ass about how many small businesses they crushed? No - crushing competitors was the WHOLE POINT. Along with reducing worker wages, safety, options, but just enough money to buy the Barons' products.
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Musk wants to go to Mars because it'll take $Billions to get there and he wants the lion's share of it.
He dreams of colonizing Mars, under a government more to his liking. Never mind that Mars is a hellscape. How bad must Earth get to make Mars look attractive to anyone but a profiteer?
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Oh come on. The answer is that it's not cheating if it's legal, and the profits-at-any-cost crowd wants to make cheating legal.
The way you make that happen is for the profiteers to control the government. DONE!
The whole "Of the people, by the people and for the people" idea is so 18th century.
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You should say he had ALL the information he needed to predict this obvious outcome. But he bought into an ideology that fed him a constant torrent of lies to make himself feel superior and give him a sense of tribal belonging.
His error will affect Americans for generations to come, not just him.
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Oh-so-common tactic of these lying propagandists: stretch the truth so it still seems believable (if you don't think about it too much), then beat up your opponent over things they never said or did.
And ALWAYS act like there are only extremes, no middle ground.
Many children don't buy this crap.
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What we have here is an administration that celebrates incompetence. Because 47 just can't stand being told he's wrong by ANYONE worst of all anyone who actually knows what they're talking about.
This will not end well for America. It started about the price of eggs. It ends with a weaker nation.
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Oh, please. You're exacerbating the problem with over-simplification.
First and foremost, capitalism IS doomed to fail if not properly regulated. But the same applies to socialism and communism.
Look at the world's governments and economies - a spectrum between extremes that varies by regulation.
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I think the word they're looking for here is "complicit." We need to revive that word and use it wherever it applies.
These bastards who refuse to stand up for what's right need to be called out on it EVERY TIME they appear in public. Their lives need to be made a living hell - karma bites!
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Uh, good luck with that. Didn't 47 just post something like, 'Yes, inflation is up and it's not my fault!'
These assholes are consistent - lie your ass off to get into office, then blame EVERY problem on someone else.
This is so transparent a child can see it. But those who need to believe can't.
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We are now an asshole nation right up there with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
And 47 is going to push harder, to make America the world's #1 asshole.
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Yes we knew those things.
If you are truly sincere about your epiphany you have a long road ahead of you. SO MUCH of the MAGAverse is a litany of lies that are so obviously boneheaded that one has to see them as tribal rituals more than reality.
You have so much to sort out; what you feel and why.
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We are entering the Robber Barons 2.0 Era. This time it's not being done through a wink-and-a-nod relationship between the Barons and government.
Now the Robber Barons ARE the government!
If this continues, we will be pushed back to a feudal society, slaves to the rich.
RESIST!!!
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Well, yeah, I can explain it, but no one with a soul and a conscience will like it.
Two of the most evil regimes on the planet (yes, the USA is now an evil regime thanks to our current Asshole-in-Chief) are negotiating Ukraine's future without regard for Ukraine, for whom neither gives a rat's ass.
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MAGAts will declare this is unAmerican behavior.
Bullshit.
It's nothing more than knowing right from wrong. It is the OPPOSITE of unAmerican behavior to re-direct America from a course of pure evil.
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See, this is what I don't get. What Musk says here is so head-bangingly stupid that anyone with half a brain cell would know it's stupid. And this is a man who has spent decades trying to convince people he's a genius.
How do so many otherwise reasonably intelligent people buy this crap?
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You don't understand. FAR too many people find reality so, you know, absolute. Unyielding. What if I don't like reality? Believing what I want is so much more satisfying.
As an engineer who knows that reality rules all, that we work with it, around it or we fail, I soooo get your view. Many don't.
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47 doesn't need supporters anymore. Elections no longer matter. (He may even try to prevent the 2026 midterms.) EVERYONE is a patsy, a pawn in his real-life board game. He's just a grown spoiled toddler trashing the place because he can. And he's getting help from those who will profit from it.
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So now Elmo is developing dis-information-spewing AI. Yay. Another technological leap for humankind.
FACT: AI is just as subject to the law of "Garbage in, garbage out" as any other software.
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Direct and to the point. Here's another example: Anyone who doesn't agree with that self-evident relationship between facts and actions is evil - by definition.
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In the time RFK Jr. has been ranting about the 'horrors' of vaccines, he could have gone through an entire graduate and post-graduate course of study in epidemiology that would have demonstrated beyond any doubt that his anti-vax ranting is BEYOND STUPID.
But the rant was easier and paid better.
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I can't agree with that. Zero implies a null value. RFK Jr. shows every indication of being a massive negative influence on US health outcomes.
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When advising people of their Constitutional rights somehow gets someone in trouble, you know you're living under a tyrannical government.
Thank you Mr. Homan, for making that even more clear.
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I keep saying this. 47 doesn't need supporters anymore. Elections no longer matter. (If he gets his way, there won't be another.) He owns politicians, the SCOTUS, even the military. (Unless the Joint Chiefs ACTUALLY DEFEND the Constitution.)
He can screw everyone he wants without consequence.
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Some background here.
Swasticars aren't the most deadly because of fires. (They, like other EVs, catch fire around 1/10 as often as gas cars.) It's also not because of the Autopilot or Full-Self-Driving.
It's because the BEYOND STUPID tablet-stuck-on-the-dash user interface is SUPER DISTRACTING.
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What 47 is telling us here is that his oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" was always a lie. He is now and will continue to treat this nation as his own plaything, to feed his ego and his pockets. US democracy is dead.
He. Must. Be. Stopped. Sooner rather than later.
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The sheer lunacy of this screed is obvious on its face.
If it was easy to stop the flow of drugs at any border, we would be doing that at our border. We aren't. We also suck at cutting demand for drugs.
Typical right-wingers: Shit for brains, and every problem is someone else's fault. Pure scum.