sonofaraven.bsky.social
Hokie. Politically homeless. Nerd.
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Source: thedispatch.com/article/doge...
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As they say, “out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.” And all I can say is, holy fuck. 6/6
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Remembered as a mom who picked her favorites and babied them into a dysfunctional adulthood, while emotionally starving the ones who could fake having it together, forcing them to find loving parenting outside the family. So, no, you won’t be remembered as a woman who kept her mouth shut, but 5/
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You’ll be remembered as someone who, when faced with the unfairness of life, turned down the high road and opted to take the road just slightly higher than your enemies, causing hurt to those who you were supposed to love while retaining the right to be outraged about the other team. You’ll be 4/
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Of reconciliation and healing that your family so desperately needed. You’ll be remembered as the one who, when your son faced his fears of turning out just like his father, but overcame to turn into a loving and supportive husband and girl-dad, let your toxic culture blind you to his hard work. 3/
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Your children as someone who was supposed to be there to support them as they dealt with the tragedies of life, but were too wrapped up in your own search for happiness. You’ll be remembered as someone who preferred the cheers from your political team on Facebook over going through the hard work 2/
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it kind of makes sense. Trump’s henchmen think that everything the government does is what Trump tells it to do, rules be damned. So of course, anything the government did under Biden must have been by his edict. if you get audited and owe, it means you cheated come back when the audit is clean…
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To appreciate the magnitude of the sacrifice Sassoon made, you need to understand that her professional credentials aren’t gold-plated, they’re platinum-plated.
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“Come to bluesky,” they said. “Twitter is nothing but an echo chamber of illogical radicals ruling each other up. Bluesky is the public forum that Twitter was always supposed to be,” they said…
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Yep. It was unconstitutional when Obama did it. Just as unconstitutional when Trump does it. What’s the saying? “Every double standard is really a single standard in disguise.” If the “other team” doing illegal things is awful but not your team, then it was never about the legality, just the team.
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Wordle 1,330 2/6
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2 buddy!
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No. You don’t get it. Political threats, echo chambers, shouting down intelligent objections to the party line, and the like are only bad if you’re “them.” If you’re on the correct team, then those are all perfectly acceptable. /sarcastica
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So you have to convince the people not write them off. If I wanted an ideological echo chamber unconcerned with fixing the government and just getting their way then I would’ve opened a truth social account instead of a blue sky account.
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You may be right. But if you’re wrong, in less than two years, no one will have been convinced to change their vote and Trump will get another round of toadies into congress. Our system works not when you get the right dictator, but when the people vote for the right steward of the executive branch
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Let me know how shitting on the intelligence of the voters who eschewed your candidate goes for you. We live in a democratic system. You know what you call the candidate with the more intelligent constituency and 49% of the vote? The loser.
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I love the drumbeat of “the Republicans are doing this” after the orange one won the popular vote. Maybe, if dems had been willing to get out of the echo chamber, they could have run someone that appealed to more than 50% of Americans? Or, crazy idea, more than 50% of swing state voters?
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As if raising prices via tariffs wasn’t enough, now the dumbass is going to flood the market with job seekers, driving down wages. Wage-price spirals are bad, but low wages and high prices are a hell of a lot worse.
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Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? Each senator/representative is supposed to do what’s best for their constituency and that leads to independence from the party heads and compromise. Instead we see congressmen approving the party head acting against the best interests of their constituency.
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Found it! Go Hokies!
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“On July 8 of last year, Putin’s forces bombed a children’s hospital in Kyiv. Putin knows a soft target when he sees it, and there are few targets in the geopolitical theater right now softer than Donald Trump.”
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What if we protect democracy and the majority votes for a wannabe autocrat with brocrushes on legit dictators? The more I study the founding fathers, the more I realize they wanted just enough democracy to get public buy-in, but not so much that you have mob rule. The French missed that lesson
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The answer is to work to abolish the pardon power. Same goes for all sorts of executive overreach. Any power your guy enjoys may be used by their guy. Rather than rushing to expand powers of the executive when you have the reins of power, maybe you should bolster the power of other branches. 2/2
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then I discerned their end. Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! Psalm 73:3-19
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For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning. If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children. But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, until I went into the sanctuary of God; 4/
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Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them. And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?” Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches. All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence. 3/
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Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment. Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies. They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression. They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth. 2/