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AmericanSilo

@americansilo.bsky.social

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Registered Independent and always thinking. Artistic anti-fascist. Ex-cityslicker and aspiring hillbilly. From Liberal to Leftist, common sense, Socialist, radical.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · Jan 13

I'm upset by all that is about to take place. And I am not doing well.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 3h

I used to think Jim Jordan was the most disgusting person in Washington but Mike Johnson has him beat hands down.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 4h

Not surreal. You have to realize a couple hundred thousand people tieing things up there and that project is done. The people are accepting all of this. They don't care. They'll wave a flag for a couple of hours. That's the extent. Flags and signs.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 1d

Irks the hell outa me that he's the most effective and influential moron since Joseph McCarthy. Makes me fucking crazy.

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 1d

"Will enough Americans rise up to reverse the tide of populist authoritarianism? The Filipinos did it under Marcos. One morning the autocrats woke up and were no longer in control; the marchers were. That needs to happen here."

David Brooks

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 13h

The biggest market crash in American history is coming.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/m...

Morgan Stanley posts massive third-quarter earnings beat

Wall Street-centric banks like Morgan Stanley and peer Goldman Sachs are in an ideal moneymaking environment.

www.cnbc.com

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 1d

Irks the hell outa me that he's the most effective and influential moron since Joseph McCarthy. Makes me fucking crazy.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

ai.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

ah.
You mean the blond in the tie next to Ingrid is Pammy.
Got it. ✌️

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

Stop. For god's sake.
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

American businessman and ex-president Donald Trump, Belgian model...

American businessman and ex-president Donald Trump, Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve, and American businessman Jeffrey Epstein attend the Victoria's Secret “Angels” party on April 28, 1997 in New York.....

www.gettyimages.com

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

That's not Bondi, that's Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve. Please take this down. Let's not travel the "I don't care about the facts" road that FOX and MAGA paves.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

I do not doubt that.
They inspect my truck, deliver my mail, my propane and my firewood. Each and every one packing a Glock. Some days it feels like the end of the world is closing in.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

Just north across the border into Western Massachusetts and the MAGA strain of local resident is armed and fierce. And also a loser.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

True. Also as a black man in high office he had an inherent popular mandate for typical New York social causes while in reality, he was one of the original corporate-cause guys funded by them and best indicated in lily tennis-whites playing doubles with the Caucasian Titans of Industry. Complicated.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, that was wholly rhetorical.
His record at best was checkered, don't you think?
I think Dinkins lost the script when he raised taxes and cut services at the same time, bewildering much of New York's liberal populace.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 6d

A traveled/educated person can be persuaded because their evolution is rooted in their intellect. But MAGA is rooted in their pride, their dick and their gun and so any “evolution” is inherently a LOSS OF PERSONAL IDENTITY.

There will be no peaceful sharing of a country with a people such as this.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

Where the hell is David Dinkins when we need him?

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, the TrumpTrains of be-flagged pickup trucks in the 17th are equal parts gross-offensive and comically-hilarious.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, exactly.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

It's not that they don't care about themselves, exactly. I lived in the middle of the 17th for 8 years.

Closer to the truth is that they will gratefully trade away virtually anything, healthcare included, if it means they can elect a President who represents their white privilege and superiority.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 2d

I honestly think they realized he'd make the n-word usable in public again and that was enough right there for three quarters of them.

He threw in cheap groceries and they were dumb enough to believe that, too. And that got him the final 25%. That's MAGA in a nutshell.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure much of this really matters, M.D. People who don't want to be ruled will not be ruled.

They can pass all the Insurrect Acts they like and when the people care enough to become unruly they've got no higher cards to play short of mass public executions, Kent State X a million. Let them try.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 3d

There is no living peacefully with people who live and love to make you dead.

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 3d

Thought for a Sunday morning.
"The only way to do it is to do a French Revolution on them."

People of good hearts and minds will twist and turn away, unthinkable, unable to accept that this may be the only realistic path. Sadly, it is the only effective path when confronted with cruelty as this.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 4d

AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · Jun 10

We've arrived at that point along the authoritarian timeline where the least helpful amongst us still believe we'll have free and fair elections so Democrats can win, indict, convict and incarcerate Republicans.

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AmericanSilo @americansilo.bsky.social · 4d

Most philosophical culture agrees self-knowledge is the path to human happiness. Joni wrote and Crosby Stills sang "And I don't know who I am but life is for learning." Indeed, many rivers to cross.

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