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Cranky GenXer who hates this timeline. Former syndicated political columnist. Coloradoan.
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And there’s your Brownshirts

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This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

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He’s going to start arresting members of Congress

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You misspelled “Republicans”

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Trump has his Gestapo now

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Well, I mean as long as she feels bad about it

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He’s disarming us for Putin

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here is a cartoon from 2017 about falling into the "it's just a distraction" trap

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Lol

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Imagine being a neo-Nazi lawyer working for ICE and getting busted because you kept making posts to your anonymous Nazi account while appearing in court, while the journalists watched you and checked your feed www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

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Trumpenbourgeoisie

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While it’s true America was never as great or kind or decent as we imagined it to be, it’s still heartbreaking to watch it being destroyed by this smirking fat bastard

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A Reading List to explain how we got into this mess Dreamland by Sam Quinones The Most Dangerous Branch by David A. Kaplan The Death of Expertise @radiofreetom.bsky.social Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge @rickperlstein.bsky.social Rise of the Warrior Cop @radleybalko.bsky.social

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First South Korea, now Brazil. It's almost like every other damn country but us knows how to handle these goons... apnews.com/article/bols...

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Something, something, something and then the Revolution comes

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We're all gonna die

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I may owe Florida an apology www.kktv.com/2025/02/18/c...

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Weird how she doesn't seem the least bit intimidated by this low-rent thug

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For #presidentsday let’s remember some of the presidents beside Biff Tannen who got us into the mess: Andrew Johnson-pardoned almost the entire Confederacy & gutted Reconstruction, condemning America to 100 years of racist terrorism; Lyndon Johnson-Vietnam Nixon-Vietnam & Watergate Reagan-gutting

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Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.

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Y’all know damn good and well President Biff Tannin didn’t write that. He might MIGHT have some vague idea that Napoleon was French but that’s as far as it goes.

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We’re living in “The Sopranos,” but with Jackie Jr. as the boss

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Another day closer to the United States being transformed into a shabby kleptocratic mob-state...

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Breaking news: Inflation is higher now under Trump than it was for the entire second half of last year under Joe Biden. MAGA: That’s right baby!! Daddy’s home! Trump 2024! Because it is a cult of willful fucking stupids.

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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If we lived in a sane timeline this suit would be immediately thrown out and the AG sanctioned, possibly referred for disciplinary action. But, of course, we're trapped here in the Bad Place

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Republicans want you to die so they can cut taxes for billionaires

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Man, them Belgians.

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Give her what she really wants this Valentine’s Day - Reproductive rights, an ancient tome of curses, the souls of her enemies, and pockets in every dress.

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