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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 45m

He could literally murder their own children and they'd applaud.

Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 1h

Screw their bloated budget, but they're not buying missiles.

"A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code."

www.wired.com/story/no-ice...

No, ICE (Probably) Didn’t Buy Guided Missile Warheads

A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code for “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.

www.wired.com

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 2h

"Mr. <Dem nominee>, tear down this ball(room)!"

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 2h

As insulting as Platner saying “how do you expect to win men?” when people won’t let the Nazi shit slide.

Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 3h

Up next from NYT: "Trump seems to be following through on Project 2025 despite disavowing it during his campaign"

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 4h

Hard to control for the “I vote for hurting those I hate rather than helping me” chunk of the coalition.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 6h

It’s just says “guided missile warheads”. Where’s the Javelin reference (or anything that specifies what these things are)?

What chemical weapons? Is it tear gas or something else?

(Not that any of this doesn’t suck, but, I’ve seen zero details on this and would love to know.)

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 8h

Why the hell do you need an internet connection to recline a bed? Did it refuse to do anything unless it can send analytics back to the mothership?

The concept is idiotic, and the execution here is atrocious. You don’t take connectivity as a given when writing software for something like this.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 10h

What is the amount a President can steal from the Treasury that would qualify as “concerning” to Fetterman?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Fetterman describes Trump trying to steal $230 million from taxpayers as "small ball, and I think we have much bigger problems than worrying about those things."

Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 23h

They’re still waiting for polls to come in on this so consultants can tell them what to think.

Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 1d

And promise to investigate for bribery every individual and corporation that “donated” funds for the golden ballroom. These people act this way because they’re not afraid of consequences from a Democrat administration.

Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this is disqualifying for me, but goddamit, why does the alternative have to be an 80 year old that promises to not touch the filibuster and go back to business as usual with “my friends across the aisle”?

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 1d

Torrent-down economics.

Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: post images of himself wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump”

NYT: I don’t where the left gets this whole “Trump wants to be a monarch” thing.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 2d

Normie Dems are in no way interested in going back to the status quo where the right gets a penalty-free crack at fascism every 4-8 years, while the left gets pummeled mercilessly for not fixing things fast enough via norms and bipartisanship.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 2d

For a second there I thought you were building a model of the famous Battersea Power Station. :)

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 2d

Two steaks at the same time?

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 3d

That’s not what I said. All else being equal - fair game.

But we can’t blame the public for not taking an authoritarian takeover seriously when journalists denote weeks of coverage to something else.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 3d

Tapper got shit because he was doing a "Biden bad" press tour right in the middle of Trump going full fascist. It wasn't him dumping on Dems/Biden, it was his misplaced priorities.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 3d

It also gives pause to individuals and institutions that are considering caving.

Number one: we might come back from this, and number two: those who fought the battle will not forgive the collaborators.

There’s no going back to “before times”, one way or another.

Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 3d

Haha. Justa friendly “jab” at people exercising their freedom of speech. What a rascal!

God I’m so damn sick of being gaslit by the media that insists on showing this square peg fascism into a round hole of normalcy.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans have for decades referred to their voters as Real Americans™️, and for some reason the representatives of the other half of the country just accepted that they represent second-class citizens.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 4d

You know that if they were actual drug dealers this administration would haul them in chains in front of cameras.

The fact they they’re being quietly repatriated speaks volumes.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of external actors are watching too. The early capitulation you saw by law firms, corporations, etc. was because they thought there was a “vibe shift”. These things give them more spine - out of self-preservation, yes, - but it matters.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that the same SCOTUS judges that gut all gun regulations also demand extra round-the-clock security is a special kind of “fuck you” to the nation.