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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 2h

RELEASE THE PEE TAPES VLADIMIR!

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 2h

I just don't have the time for assholes like you. Have a nice day.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 2h

Actually, I think Johnson is right.
This fight is about a Legislative branch that will actually DO ITS JOB and fulfill its Constitutional duties despite Republican fear of Donald Trump and his administration.

Healthcare is just a one prime example of Republican cowardice in the face of Trump.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 2h

We need a real path toward a Congress that will check executive branch over-reach.

NO national government is better than THIS national government.

Hold the line!

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 2h

You would make it more difficult to vote (and actually more prone to abuse) and manage a state voting process given that the probability of voter fraud is less than 0.0001 based on most recent data?

The problem is that too many people DON'T vote.

Makes no sense.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

Thune knows that the core issue isn't health care. Watch the first five minutes of the latest David Frump show to see what's really at stake in this shutdown:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Aj...

When Conservatism Meant Freedom | The David Frum Show

YouTube video by The Atlantic

www.youtube.com

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

The only thing that matters is that they are Vance's "people/"

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration is hoping they can provoke the MAGA into some kind of violence on Saturday. Keep watch for false flag operations.

I'm wondering if the daily newspaper in my city (Dallas) will cover the rally this time. They ignored the last one.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

Way too many academic leaders think they can wait this out. They're wrong by 77 million votes.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting work. 👍

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

Kermit be with them!

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

It won't be "real" to the MAGA until they or a relative actually GET the new pricing on their own insurance.

Until then, it's just Lib Propaganda.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

All the more reason to expect Trump Republican election rigging next year.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

And were is the money generated by those increased prices going? Sovereign and consumer debt both continue to explode -- but that's something that people like the Trumps. Musks and Pfeils don't worry about.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

77 million of us have ignored all of those warnings -- and now we all pay the price they imposed on us. I wish I had some idea of how to approach that fundamental problem.

Too late now of course.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

Along with facts, there are processes. I don't know if AI today has any ability to help us understand a new process -- that generally takes practice, often in the form of someone setting a problem and guiding the student through their solution.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 7h

I think there's a different answer to "why professors" given that AI supposedly has all the "right answers."

They ask, and help us ask ourselves, the right _questions_
that help us claw our way toward some understanding.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 7h

If you have any doubt about what the current government shutdown is really about -- listen to the first five minutes of David Frum's latest show.

So important.

(And think about where Thatcher-brand conservatism has brought us all now too...)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Aj...

When Conservatism Meant Freedom | The David Frum Show

YouTube video by The Atlantic

www.youtube.com

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 7h

And there is ample evidence that the Trump administration will CONTINUE to ignore House appropriations decisions even AFTER the current shutdown ends.

Unless the Trump Republicans grow a spine somehow.

And no sign of any growth there so far.

Help them do it now, or worse to come.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 7h

Will the PEOPLE of New York City elect this man -- or will the city's big money establishment elect someone else? That's the question, and it has implications for every one of us wherever we are.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 7h

I would like to hear this lady's view on how we help the MAGA dig their way OUT of the emotional pit they're in.

The lady. The guy here is just in the way.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 7h

The thing Trump wants most after a Nobel Prize: a state funeral with all the trimmings. Flag-draped casket on a caisson pulled down Pennsylvania Avenue a the wife stands on the capital steps covered in black and the sons stand and salute.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · Sep 11

The American people on the left and right need to understand who benefits from (and who finances) our division.

The very wealthy -- say the top 2% -- want us busy attacking each other so we WON'T pay attention to THIS actual bit of American reality:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKK...

Wealth Inequality in America

YouTube video by politizane

www.youtube.com

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 18h

Wasn't that what Karl Jung concluded decades ago?

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 19h

I got handed someone else's YouTube feed yesterday.

As always, I clicked on the "News" topic to see what was going on in the world.

Of about thirty video segments presented for me to watch, EVERY ONE was from Fox.

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