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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 3h

Trump: what if I pardon that ethnic guy, the chubby one? And he’s brown, he’s ethnic! What if he says even he wouldn’t vote for Zoltan Malawi?

Toady: excellent choice sir it could work!

junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 4h

serious way

With for example AOC

Which is incredibly important

junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 4h

healthcare is not more mainstream

You’re asking one senator from a small state to instantly overcome the insurance lobby

And other senators with more complex financial ties to that world

He’s doing what he can which is fine w/me

He’s also one of the few people who really does mentorship in a

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 4h

Probably the Medicare for All which hasn’t passed

You’re again asking a senator from a small state to do outsize things

He gets very close & he draws attention to these ideas which is incredibly important

Having lived in Canada

And having been on Medicaid

It is bonkers that his position on

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 5h

Vermont has a population of I think less than 1 million, population wise I think it’s smaller than even RI.

So it is astounding anyone knows who he is imo

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 5h

If people were dumb enough to write him in that’s on them not him

It’s also frankly on mainstream Dems who keep catering to Wall Street not normies

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 5h

The thing is most people can’t afford to

He will chase away the investor class he claims to want here

junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 5h

Is Trump’s strategy just make the country so bad people leave? Is that really it?

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 5h

They should do time

junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 5h

small place the media largely ignores

The fact he even has a national profile shows he’s unusually good at getting attention

The fact that it’s often positive attention is also cool

I think his Medicare for all idea is over complicated but is it better than most senators? Yeah.

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 5h

down either, though. I don’t see him as a negative he’s a fine progressive senator from a small state.

If California changes something locally or NY

Their populations are so big & they have media capitals so it has a ripple effect

If the senator from VT is A-OK like that’s nice

It’s still a

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 5h

With Vermont it’s tough to say because it was so underdeveloped for such a long time. There were parts of Vermont that didn’t have telephone service until the 1960s.

I don’t mean they had to share party lines I mean no one wired whole towns for phone service until the 1960s

He hasn’t torched it

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 6h

Look after college I briefly went back to a job I had in HS, at Friendlys.

A veteran was also working there as a cook

I mean if it’s a job that’s not a shitty restaurant that’s enough for some people , basically the same reason people join the military

The Nazi tats on the other hand: WTF?

junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 6h

I’m baffled by all of this

I’m especially concerned that Nazi tats are common? This guy & Hegseth both? Like: what?

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 6h

RN seem to be people old enough to remember the civil rights movement (like Bernie) and young PoC esp women (why Texas is trying to eliminate Crockett’s district)

He’s doing a lot more than most

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 6h

It brings the attendees into contact with like minded other attendees

It’s explains what’s happening

It inspires people

He was going to places where Rs don’t have town halls

It organizes people: that’s important

And it is more than what almost anyone else is doing

The most active reps & sens

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 6h

He had a speaking tour to rally crowds across the nation and invited AOC to come along because he believes in doing mentorship

That’s more than my senators are doing

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 7h

On the other hand if you aren’t

Absolutely say you are

To confuse them

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve been calling Diana DeGette since Feb asking her to do more & saying it’s a coup
I can’t do much from Denver and my rep is not willing to do anything
She is still sending out surveys

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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 12h

not even my most deranged leftist fantasies included bulldozing the white house or abolishing harvard but here we are

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 15h

*churchiness not church indeed

junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 15h

I think the church indeed preps them for lies

They can’t be honest about how often they sin

They can’t be seen to actually repent

They hide all that shit Eddie Haskell style

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I’d call the police and file a report for theft of services

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junomonster.bsky.social @junomonster.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe no one tells people ‘be careful what you put in writing’ anymore

I’m not THAT old

That was like first day on the job advice for years

Who are these people ugh

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