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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST

@chathamharrison.bsky.social

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Backwoods pinko scalawag. Bespoke replies a specialty. He/him. Rear Admiral in the Kansas Antifa Navy (Inactive Ready Reserve)

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · Oct 11

I am a man who knows how to create small & achievable goals for himself

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 6h

Building power through grassroots organizing, who ever imagined such a thing

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 6h

With the clear implication being this is 1. nothing to treat lightly & 2. not sustainable

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 8h

They suck at their jobs & they suck in the most boring & obvious ways you can think of. An endless succession of otherwise unemployable failsons propped up by men with more money that they know what to do with

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 8h

This is part of the point of my recurring "the Republican Party is going to get worse before it gets even worse". It's not just that they're increasingly depraved & fascistic, it's that they're increasingly delusional incompetents

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 8h

This too is part of peaceful protest. That clarinetist is a hero.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 10h

grateful portland has risen to the challenge so far in peacefully protesting the ICE facility and that nationally we're all cheering on the frogs but I think it's important to make sure everyone is aware that the ICE goons aren't exactly being peaceful in return

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 8h

What an asshole

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 9h

As far as I've seen, the type tends to be highly successful workaholics. The unsuccessful ones' kids don't generally get these opportunities

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, which is why it's wise not to get too worked up about it in any case (though calling pulled pork & coleslaw on ciabatta a "banh mi" remains an honest travesty)

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 13h

It is purely for my sake that I refrain

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 13h

There's a lot of things I could say about these guys & I'm not going to do it because I'm trying to be above it but goddamn are they doing their best to make it difficult for me

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 13h

(white) normies mainstream a thing & franchise it & pretty soon you can get the Great Value thing with 80% of the aesthetic & 20% of the quality for ½ the price, & pretty soon people think that's what the thing was all along, & that's why we gotta firebomb the Walmart (we never firebomb the Walmart)

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 14h

Sounds like anxiety upon anxiety, speaking inexpertly

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 15h

They don't think they can win the seat in a straight fight but they'll lease it for six years & hope for a popular Dem president to have coattails in 2032

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 19h

God bless Southern cooking

A plate of spicy shrimp & grits with a bit of buttered toast on the side

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Of course they'll care. They'll demand to know what the Democrats are going to do to stop it

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

As long as Trump can sell that as peace that's fine by him, same way he can sell himself as a peacemaker abroad while doing mass murder in the Caribbean

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Journos love hawks & hate doves, simple as. Hawks make for big stories when in office & good copy when out of office. Doves are boring & probably pussies. Press hates that almost as bad as they hate women

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Trump didn't give a shit about stopping the killing except to the extent he could take credit for it. But that doesn't matter. It ought to, but it doesn't. All that matters is that Trump has leverage over Bibi that Biden didn't have, & now he's used it to enforce a peace Biden couldn't.

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

This entire administration has made an art of embodying Goodhart's Law

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1d

Pain

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

"I would simply not need that long" (it would take German infantry two to three months, at relatively breakneck speeds, to march into the Soviet rear industrial areas *unopposed*)

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

The Democratic Party did a great job executing in 2024 in the midst of great complication. But execution is not a plan, & it is not a strategy.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

I know so many large organizations are like this, but it is so frustrating to see the Democratic Party so often confident in what it knows & doesn't know, despite so often having little to show for it

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

it is really remarkable how everyone discounted her as a lightweight bound to crash and burn

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

it's hard to get mad at Kamala over anything except Gaza because otherwise the party treated her horribly and she nearly saved them from oblivion anyway

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Trump can tell Bibi what his best deal is in a way Biden couldn't (because Trump would always outbid him).

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

None of them. Fitzgerald hates them & wants you to hate them too

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

I will say that it's clear a lot of Biden FP people, if not Biden himself, saw this as a great opportunity to hobble Iran & permanently improve the security situation in the Middle East, bought cheaply with Israeli munitions & Palestinian lives. Trump is now reaping those rewards unjustly won.

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