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JS Burns

JS Burns

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JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 4h

They've known they're good for at least 2 seasons.

There just weren't enough of them so when injuries hit, the managers had to flog the healthy ones even harder and have kids on the bench.

So they bought 8 in the summer and when the injury list has 7 players on it, Arteta still has bodies to play.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 5h

Slavia Prague players are like autumn leaves; they drop at the slightest breeze.

And the ref seems to be buying all of it.

Saka meanwhile gets thrown down multiple times by Mbodji and ref ignores him.

Smart move to shift Saka left and put Dowman on the right.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 16h

It's the alt-right choice

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 16h

White for Timber.
Norgaard/Rice/Merino midfield, Eze LW, Trossard up and center.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 23h

Trossard at false 9, Eze LW, Norgaard/Nwaneri/Rice midfield, Saka RW.

Get the job done in the first half then sub in Dowman (did he make the trip?), Harriman-Annous and the finishers.

I think White and MLS also would benefit from playing time.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 23h

Mamdani win in NYC and Pelosi retirement announcement would be a good week for American democracy.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 23h

PS the two of you should commit to growing the bald mullet if Arsenal break the goals conceded record.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 23h

Match commentators would be: There goes Arsenal players sucking on their sachets of HEINZE again.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 23h

Call a match with no shots on target faced by the GK a HEINZE and slap that label on the celebratory warm down drinks the players consume after matches.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think there's a difference between media and political systems. They're parts of the same thing.

Corporations have controlled both Western media and Western politics over the last few decades.

Corporations have used both to shape policy decisions to suit corporate aims.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

... against the real culprits for all our common problems: corporations and the very wealthy who continue to concentrate wealth into their own hands and refuse to pay their fair share.

So yeah ... Want to change all this? Try left wing populism because we've been angry at the wrong people.

Fin/

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

... hate and fear, mobilizing angry, desperate and hungry people to target foreigners and migrants and people who look differently, worship differently, speak differently than they do.

It's the billionaires and the corporations who want Americans to turn against each other instead of turning ...
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JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

Now the economy is struggling, more than a third of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 10% of the population have no health insurance and Congress won't pass gun control laws so mass shootings happen regularly.

In this mess, corporations and the wealthy fund right-wing populists to stir up ...
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JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

America's politicians are owned by corporations and special interest groups.

They consistently make decisions based on what those donors want, not on what Americans need.

Politicians stay in DC for decades, lining their own pockets while they do the biddings of corporations and the wealthy.
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JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

SUCCESSIVE US administrations, from both parties, have presided over America's decline over the last generation or two.

The decline didn't happen overnight. It's been a carefully managed process prioritizing the interests of the very wealthy/corporations over the needs of everyone else.
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JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

Jamie who?

(That's the response Jamie O'Hara deserves.)

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the outrage when Arteta upped his wages last summer?

Remember all those folks fantasizing about selling Trossard and buying some entitled Brazilian child from Real Madrid?

Not only has Trossard made key contributions from LW, he probably plays false 9 in Prague after the Gyokeres blow.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

Pelosi is 85 and has been in DC for over four decades.

Whatever has happened in DC and to the US all took place during her watch.

She and others like her are ALSO responsible for all this mess.

Put her to pasture if she won't go there of her own volition.

#primarypelosi

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country's population, THOSE 400 people have a very serious problem.

#peoplepower #classwarfare #eattherich #moreofusthanthem

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

... and balances. They use executive orders to usurp powers (taxation, declaration of war, etc.) that constitutionally lay with Congress. The DoJ is being weaponised to pursue dissenters.
- The use Palantir to crosslink databases and crossreference information.

The people won't know what hit them.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

- They're already deep into the process of disabling/getting rid of/stacking federal agencies with Project 2025 loyalists.
- They're criminalizing dissent, and they've got the thugs (ICE) in place to terrorize the population.
- They're solidifying to executive branch power at the expense of ...
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JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

It's staggering how STUPID Trump is to not have recognized the decoy planted onto his presidential ticket for what he actually was/is. One has to wonder what the payoff was for accepting that couchfucker as VP from the technofeudal lords.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

The Honeypot has been a classic espionage strategy since the dawn of time. To compromise a man, stroke his ego and appeal to his base nature. The weaker the character of the man, the more effective the strategy.

Trump? I can't think of anyone of weaker character than The Donald right now.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 1d

I think Thiel is the more dangerous of the two because he's happy wielding power from the shadows whereas Elon wants the limelight.

I also think Palantir is absolutely a threat to everyone and everything, over and above anything else out there.

JS Burns @jsburns.bsky.social · 2d

The Epstein case shows us how powerful men are vain and can be easily corrupted through exploitation of their vanity.

It doesn't matter who's in the Epstein Files; so many are implicated in it.

What matters is how those files are used, and whom gets targeted.

Trump is on the files' sights.