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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · Apr 28

Trump crime family + mafia friends support:

Deporting U.S. citizen kids w/ cancer, w/o meds

Disappearing people to concentration camp for life

Crashing global economy to test crackpot economic theory

Insider trading while destroying economy

Being besties w/ the murderous dictators of the world

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah. Just because it's important to vote for Dems doesn't mean they all are exempt from criticism

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 7d

Wow I'm amazed that fuckstick decided to ask a mildly smart question for a change. Broken clock..

JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 7d

I was gonna say. Those yearly checkups sure are frequent...

JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 8d

Either a case of lightning actually striking twice, or that liberty is fragile enough (especially now) that enough people have had their rights violated for there to be a large enough sample size that it's not unlikely for two people named Miranda to have had their rights denied

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 8d

From your lips to God's ears. They may try to pull some shenanigans with the military in deep blue cities, but if the margin is made up in rural areas, they can't do much about that unless they plan to rig every last precinct

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 8d

Hate to be a doomer but it's difficult to see any off ramp to this before the midterms. And that will be an off ramp that is fraught with peril

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 8d

That, and, much of the American public has the (somewhat reductive) view that if a party controls all three branches, they own every mistake. Worked against Dems when McConnell obstructed them, but now has a chance to work against the GOP.

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 8d

The pope has instructed U.S. bishops to take a stronger public stand against the president’s hardline immigration policies

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 14d

POLLS: Who do Americans blame for the gov't shutdown?*

WASH POST
47% blame Trump/GOP
30% blame Dems

MARIST
38% blame GOP
27% blame Dems

NYT/SIENA
26% blame Trump/GOP
19% blame Dems

MORNING CONSULT
45% blame GOP
32% blame Dems

[*all taken b/w late Sept & Oct 1]

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Early polls show Trump and GOP taking more blame than Democrats for shutdown

The national surveys taken in the final days of September and the first day of the shutdown find that voters are more inclined to blame Trump and his party. But many are uncertain.

www.nbcnews.com

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 14d

I've never seen someone who so frequently and blandly bore false witness as Mike Johnson. He's like an evil Mr. Rogers.

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 14d

The word "too" accidentally made its way out his mouth. Freudian slip?

JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 20d

"born again american"

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 20d

On the other hand, that also means his/the Roberts court's rulings are not gospel either

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 20d

Clearly there's some misogyny this guy needs to work thru

JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 21d

Lest we forget, UN Headquarters are in New York City

That would represent the first military attack there since, well... the thing we will never forget

Apparently nothing has to make sense to these people anymore

JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 29d

They can joke all they want about their enemies and homeless people, but God help you if you do anything short of effusively praising one of their influencers

JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 29d

"Michael, that's not what a hate crime is" "Well I really hated it!"

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 29d

Can Jentleson and Third Way provide a complete list of "the groups" they loathe?

Pretty sure it compromises most of the dem base, small dollar donors, GOTV volunteers

Meanwhile their constituency is their billionaire donors and, of course, the dc political reporters who gladly gobble up this shit

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29d

Not the Onion, the NYT.
"New Group Wants to Stop Politicians From Listening to Groups (Except for This New Group)"

A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 29d

I really want to believe otherwise, but the doomer in me is thinking we may have passed the point of no return where individuals no longer have the ability to displace capital from being the dominant influence on both political parties

And that point may have been passed a long time ago

JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 29d

Harry was a fighter (figuratively and literally), he would probably call these people p*ssies

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 29d

Fwiw, some Dems already have been minimizing their messaging about climate change because their focus groups tell them "it's an abstract issue that people don't always understand well, so talk about other stuff"

JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · 29d

"Appeal to more voters"

Right. This definitely won't push people like me (who always vote for Democrats, sometimes plugging their nose) to just not bother anymore

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 17

those commies at cato will get it for this

ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · Sep 16

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · Sep 14

They don't care. Low effort obvious gaslighting is the normal way they deal with these things now. The people who are already primed to believe it will do so, the rest of us won't

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JimmyJames @thejimmyjames.bsky.social · Sep 14

She will just claim it's misinformation or out of context

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