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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · Jun 8

Yesterday I asked my wife if there was a chance for rain.
She responded by saying,
"there's always a chance for rain."

She is smarter.

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 2h

Most Hedges speeches end up on YT.

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 2h

Same. You're not alone.

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 2h

They're good kids like Tom Homan is an honest and good man.

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 2h

Life was better when you went to the bar and said shit to the guy next to you and then got your teeth knocked out.
People talked less shit.

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 2h

Pure lunacy.
We need them as much, if not more, than they need us.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h

US warns world will ‘decouple’ from China if it imposes new export controls on.ft.com/3J63DnI

US warns world will ‘decouple’ from China if it imposes new export controls

Scott Bessent says Washington will retaliate if Beijing proceeds with policy on rare earths and critical minerals

on.ft.com

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 8h

The obvious answer is so difficult.

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Double-Vision Deadhead @creativecats.bsky.social · 10h

“Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows!”
— Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 3

"Ulysses laments the breakdown of order when leaders lose sight of purpose and common good — a fitting image for a government where both parties have stopped serving the people"

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 9h

During COVID when many of the Billionaires fled momentarily to their bunkers there were reports of debates of whether to kill the pilots who flew them there.

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 9h

Get back temptation!

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 9h

There's more money in slop.

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viejo gambler @viejogambler.bsky.social · 10h

Trump's Policies Guarantee that We Will Never Catch Up.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

open.substack.com

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 9h

Neckbeard Nazis!

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 11h

Those that voted for Trump will be exempted from raids?
How much bakshish to prevent a raid?
This is not a 'black swan.'
www.thedailybeast.com/land-olakes-...

CEO Warns of ‘Black Swan Event’ Under Trump

A crisis could take just eight hours to unfold, said Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford.

www.thedailybeast.com

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 11h

Many wars are started not because of an outside threat or need but for purposes of domestic politics and ends.
I hope my fears are unwarranted, but I do envision a scenario summer '26 where a war with Venezuela serves the Trumps admins domestic politics.
news.antiwar.com/2025/10/12/m...

Maduro Offered the US Access To Venezuela's Oil and Mineral Resources To Avoid War - News From Antiwar.com

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had offered the US access to Venezuela's oil, minerals, and other natural resources as part of a potential deal to avoid conflict, The New York Ti...

news.antiwar.com

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 11h

Much appreciated.
2 things come to mind.
1. www.impactnetwork.org/latest-news/...
2. The Chinese chose a path of Pragmatism in almost all matters around or about 1980 with the ascent of Deng Xiaoping. It has worked tremendously well.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

"They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them..." — Impact Network

I recently came across a Bolivian educator, known for making any student at Garfield High School into a master of algebra, trigonometry and calculus – Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutierrez.

www.impactnetwork.org

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely Liberals/the Left/Progressives need to recapture the Flag.
This accomplishes two things:
1. It teaches a different form of Patriotism
2. Fries the brains of the ignoramus who have believed for too long the red, white and blue is all theirs.

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 12h

Paywalled for me. Ty.

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 12h

Do outcomes confirm this?

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 12h

4 assholes and a quibbler.

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Wyrdeone @wyrdeone.bsky.social · 13h

As a corpse can warm a bed
And banners still dance lively once all the soldiers died
So does duty keep the echoes
From rising above thunderous
In all the hollow spaces
Left inside

#poetry

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 12h

You always know when,
"Im not racist but"

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 21h

It kinda works in the past and present tense.

JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 22h

I agree. Eventually the Machine will make a mistake which will be catastrophic. To whom and how severe tbd.

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 22h

If the product does not work as intended, or sold, is it then fraudulent?