slownomaguy.bsky.social
Wine lover, cat dad, wannabe landscape photographer. With age comes wisdom, or in my case, curmudgeonliness. I see the positives, just don't always like them. In the end, why drink wine when you can drink sparkling wine? what/now
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“Sometimes”? That would be a register of all introverts.
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The Onion keeps coming up with satirical and outlandish content, but every once in awhile you have to check and make sure it’s not a real headline. The times we live in.
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Trade wars are like nuclear wars, the only winning moves is not to start one. I doubt the message will get through, but hopefully Trump can read a poll and take a hint.
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Trump is learning that when it comes to a trade war, the only winning move (like a nuclear war) is not to start one.
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Statues, the door prize for true despots, and for Trump, a tribute to vanity.
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The president lies, but the numbers don’t.
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He’s running the country the same way he runs his businesses. America elected a pyromaniac to be its fire safety manager.
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It occurred to me that #INS, #ICE, etc seem to be more than willing to enforce the authoritarian edicts of Trump. While many agencies push back, you don’t see or hear anything from the jackboot enforcement wing. Makes me think this level of aggressive cruelty is part of their DNA.
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It occurred to me that #INS, #ICE, etc seem to be more than willing to enforce the authoritarian edicts of Trump. While many agencies push back, you don’t see or hear anything from the jackboot enforcement wing. Makes me think this level of aggressive cruelty is part of their DNA.
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Musk added;
With any luck, my daily involvement with Tesla will make that -100% by the end of the year.
Midas touch dude.
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The church lost me with their “all or nothing” approach to faith and when Pope’s went from representing the teachings of Christ to god-like figures on their own. If you want to honor Francis, go out and do the things he practiced and preached, don’t hero worship.
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He’s lost Roberts and even frat-boy. Trump has turned the conservative super-majority into a more moderate “ok, that’s far enough Mr President”. Trump can’t see to the end of next week, but Court can.
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Trump is a walking/talking pretense. His actions are random, his words barely coherent, but his intent is clear. Rachel Maddow would say “watch he does, not what he says”. More to the point, look at his random acts as a body of work, and the intent is clear.
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Maybe not, but it was formed to spread the teachings of someone who did.
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I’m not a religious person, and left the Church years ago. But at this time and place, I’d pray to a goldfish if I thought it would help.
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A school that literally invented legal studies in America and has more legal minds and alums than most law firms. Trump sure can pick his battles.
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It still amazes me that a church founded on kindness and helping those less fortunate needed a revolutionary Pope who simply suggested Catholicism be less dictatorial and charted a course with “what would Jesus do?” As a guiding principle.
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So the person in charge of national security had her personal security breached and purse stolen? You cannot make this stuff up.
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I love how beloved he was for charting the Catholic Church back towards a “what would Jesus do” path. I thought that was the whole idea.
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I have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone who voted for Trump. You knew who he was, you believed the lies. You knew he was going after immigrants, LGBTQ, and other “enemies”. Now he’s hurting you. Too bad.
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The title should be “VA decides private matters should actually remain private”. This should not be a discovery that just occurred to them.
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Collateral damage, the Trump speciality. He doesn’t see it coming, and doesn’t care when it happens. All he cares about is his simplistic, vengeful, agenda.
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Now all the legal system needs is the power to enforce its rulings, because Trump will just ignore this one like all the rest. This whole system relies on compliance, but what do they do when someone says “no”? Sure you can jail him for contempt, but he knows that will never happen.
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This is, hopefully, the fatal flaw of Trump. MAGA just nods and buys whatever BS the peddle. But they forget that, outside their bubble, everyone else knows they are lying. When they get in court or outside their comfort zone, no one is buying it.
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Fantastic. Another ruling Trump can ignore. When are we going to understand we live in a lawless country. Trump makes up the rules as he goes along, and the judiciary is increasingly powerless to do anything other than render rulings without the power to enforce them.
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We are still using old paradigms in attempting to comprehend Trump. He can always find a poll he he likes and will discard the rest as leftest lies. Regardless, it won’t modify his behavior or alter his path.
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Trump is right, we do need to investigate and find the truth. It’s called due process, and removing someone from the country by force is NOT part of it!
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They assume that because it’s the sort of retribution tactic they would use, it must have been the motivation to audit Lindell.
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Maybe they’re holding it for ransom until Trump restores their press pool access?
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Like Trump, Musk has a zero-sum world view. Unions benefit the workers, so in his mind, he loses. Musk is anti anything that doesn’t directly benefit him.
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Makes total sense. Musk and his hackers are data miners, always looking for an edge. Willing to cross the line of legal and ethical without thought or regard. The notion that he didn’t have a motive beyond his stated purpose for DOGE is ridiculous and naive.
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Makes total sense. Musk and his hackers are data miners, always looking for an edge. Willing to cross the line of legal and ethical without thought or regard. The notion that he didn’t have a motive beyond his stated purpose for DOGE is ridiculous and naive.
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In the past, the main reason I’d avoid discussing politics in certain social settings was because I didn’t think it was appropriate. Now I’ve got another reason, it’s starting to become dangerous. I feel like some people aren’t just listening, they’re taking note.
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Hardly fair, but very accurate.
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We’re not monsters, we just work for one.
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Are there any laws in this country?
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The Trump administration should self-pleasure themselves.
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With Trump, we need to get away from phrases like “unprecedented” and “conflict of interest”. He has no interest beyond his own. He may be cruel, chaotic, and vindictive, but he’s not conflicted.