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Techerous @techerous.bsky.social · 3h

I share many progressive opinions, but it has boggled my mind for almost a decade how convinced they all seem to be that there are just 10s of millions of potential voters throughout the country that have been sitting out waiting for the most socialist candidate in US history to be in a general.

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting how these 10s of millions of socialist voters never turn up in any poll, primary, or general election but by god they're all out there waiting like Soviet sleeper agents for the magic progressive wand to wake them up and get them to the polls.

emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 2h

He really is so terrible. In any other administration he'd stand out for it, but all the people who surround Trump are so awful that I tend to forget about him when he's not opening his stupid mouth.

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 3h

I would have described jokes about Hitler as a lot of things, but EDGY? As in, bold and unconventional? Really?

Who thinks like that?

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 6h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 3h

Next Trump will speak to Antifa and they will say "yes, sir, we are in fact a terrorist organization funded by Soros, thank you for giving us the opportunity to come clean."

emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, Maxwell House? It's not like you're drinking the most expensive beans, lovingly hand-roasted.

It's MAXWELL HOUSE, for heaven's sake.

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Aaron Miller @aaronmiller.bsky.social · 6h

100%. It's such a clear case of corruption..and dems can hit it over and over and over again: "He's got $40Billion for a corrupt foreign leader, but not for you. Not for schools. Not for health care. Not for things that make your life better!" Even better if they can tie the $40B to tangible things

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✨🐦‍⬛ EfterSolen 🐦‍⬛✨ @callofthebird.bsky.social · 4h

It's so easy. They drop the ball over and over and over. "Mike Johnson wants to protect pedophiles." "They want to take your medicaid away. We're fighting that." This shit isn't hard. Fuck decorum. Save our country.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5h

I'd like to point out that extending the enhanced #ACA tax credits for one year would only cost $23.4 billion.

www.cbo.gov/system/files...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 6h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 7h

A Frogosaur!

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

media.tenor.com

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 9h

House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted Tuesday that he would not swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva until Democrats relent and end the government shutdown.

Grijalva, speaking alongside Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, on Wednesday, said the delay “is not procedural. It’s intentional.” 🧵

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 8h

I know, and Trump knows it as well.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 9h

WHAT THE FUCK FENTANYL IS NOT EVEN COMING FROM VENEZUELA

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 8h

"Them" = Black people.

Trump thinks all Black people are stupid.

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 8h

Tell me that the mayor of Boston isn't Black without telling me that the mayor of Boston isn't Black

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 9h

well...me, for one.

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe it's not a good idea to befriend only drug addicts?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jeffries: "The effort to mischaracterize the rallies that are gonna take place all across the country is part of the continued right-wing disinformation machine that is failing to persuade the American people."

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 9h

I'm so old that I remember when stupid jokes contained the words "knock, knock" or "what's black and white and red all over" not "I love Hitler" or "rape is so much fun"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 10h

Republicans aren't even making any pretense at being a popular party or appealing to anyone outside of their very narrow base.

They're the Rich and/or Aggrieved White People Party. And they don't care who knows it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Vought: "We're gonna keep those RIFs rolling throughout this shutdown ... think the Minority Business Development Agency that divvies up business grants on basis of race. Think Environment Justice at EPA ... "

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 10h

They're not even pretending anymore. Just fucking over anyone who isn't a rich white man and doing it so publicly.

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