Scallywag
@coldwarvet.bsky.social
USN, Intel, TS/SCI. Average working guy. Paw Paw. Previously "Scallywag" on the dead bird app. Atheist leaning.
Control room operator in a major manufacturer of consumer goods.
Control room operator in a major manufacturer of consumer goods.
Social media interaction is interesting. Someone just called me out, somewhat spitefully for a reply of mine, that wasn't correct. I told the person to calm down, and got called sexist, and blocked. Can't win sometimes. 🤷🏻♂️
March 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Social media interaction is interesting. Someone just called me out, somewhat spitefully for a reply of mine, that wasn't correct. I told the person to calm down, and got called sexist, and blocked. Can't win sometimes. 🤷🏻♂️
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What. Is. This. Garbage.
March 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What. Is. This. Garbage.
Absolutely this! 👇👇👇
"You might have to suffer a bit" is the MAGA version of "Let them eat cake."
When a politician tells you it's your duty to sacrifice for THEIR principles, it's time to start building guillotines.
When a politician tells you it's your duty to sacrifice for THEIR principles, it's time to start building guillotines.
March 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Absolutely this! 👇👇👇
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Europe: get X and Starlink out of your countries.
Prohibit Musk from your soil.
He and Trump are working with Russia to destabilize your Democracy.
Europe: get X and Starlink out of your countries.
Prohibit Musk from your soil.
He and Trump are working with Russia to destabilize your Democracy.
March 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Europe: get X and Starlink out of your countries.
Prohibit Musk from your soil.
He and Trump are working with Russia to destabilize your Democracy.
Europe: get X and Starlink out of your countries.
Prohibit Musk from your soil.
He and Trump are working with Russia to destabilize your Democracy.
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It all makes sense once you realize a recession is actually a good thing for the 1%.
March 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It all makes sense once you realize a recession is actually a good thing for the 1%.
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NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion
As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...
www.bloomberg.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
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New euphemism new dropped via Treasury Secretary Bessent: "Could we be seeing this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit? Sure ... there's gonna be a detox period."
March 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New euphemism new dropped via Treasury Secretary Bessent: "Could we be seeing this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit? Sure ... there's gonna be a detox period."
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America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.
www.theatlantic.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This lays out the path we are on, and it seems noone is talking about it.
March 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This lays out the path we are on, and it seems noone is talking about it.
I am admittedly not well informed, partially by design for my own sanity, and due to schedule. I have heard rumblings of this guys influence on the current administration, and hangers on. Just reading his Wiki page is enough cause for alarm for me. Ugh!!!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...
Curtis Yarvin - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
March 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I am admittedly not well informed, partially by design for my own sanity, and due to schedule. I have heard rumblings of this guys influence on the current administration, and hangers on. Just reading his Wiki page is enough cause for alarm for me. Ugh!!!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...
I had to take a break here for a few days for my own good. Question: what will it take before people wake up to what is happening? I'm in a heavily maga area, and it's disappointing as hell.
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I had to take a break here for a few days for my own good. Question: what will it take before people wake up to what is happening? I'm in a heavily maga area, and it's disappointing as hell.
Having lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union (as a kid but still), talked to people who lived through it as adults and just thinking about it over the years- here's my 2 cents about what's going on:
1. The overriding mood of the last few years of the USSR was deep, deep cynicism (cont):
1. The overriding mood of the last few years of the USSR was deep, deep cynicism (cont):
February 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Hold his boots to the fire!!
This is how it’s done 🔥
Cut off Karoline Leavitt and fact-check in real time.
We heard what Trump said about sending troops to Gaza yesterday! @msnbc.com
Cut off Karoline Leavitt and fact-check in real time.
We heard what Trump said about sending troops to Gaza yesterday! @msnbc.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Hold his boots to the fire!!
Love me some Jasmine!
Last week, Elon Musk's staff illegally breached the U.S. Treasury payment system and gained access to millions of Americans' personal data.
We're calling out Elon Musk to put on his big boy pants and answer some questions from the Oversight Committee.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvv-...
We're calling out Elon Musk to put on his big boy pants and answer some questions from the Oversight Committee.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvv-...
Crockett Calls Out COWARD Musk
YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Love me some Jasmine!
The last PROOF report on Musk established—for the first time—that Musk's anger at the U.S. doing anything to protect us mid-pandemic (and Trump did almost nothing) is what radicalized him, not Vivian transitioning. It took under a week for him to position me as his most accurate biographer... again.
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.
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🚨BREAKING: Alliance for Retired Americans and two labor unions file lawsuit against Treasury Dept. to block disclosure of personal and financial information to Musk and DOGE.
Follow @democracydocket.com for details on this and every pro-democracy lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com
Follow @democracydocket.com for details on this and every pro-democracy lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
🚨BREAKING: Alliance for Retired Americans and two labor unions file lawsuit against Treasury Dept. to block disclosure of personal and financial information to Musk and DOGE.
Follow @democracydocket.com for details on this and every pro-democracy lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com
Follow @democracydocket.com for details on this and every pro-democracy lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com
Master negotiator.
Congratulations to Trump on securing a $1.3 billion border security deal from Canada.... which was already negotiated in December 2024.
February 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Master negotiator.
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Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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This might end up being Trump’s most historic mistake:
Foreign aid is not just charity—it’s an investment in stability, diplomacy, and American interests and it saves American lives too.
Foreign aid is not just charity—it’s an investment in stability, diplomacy, and American interests and it saves American lives too.
February 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This might end up being Trump’s most historic mistake:
Foreign aid is not just charity—it’s an investment in stability, diplomacy, and American interests and it saves American lives too.
Foreign aid is not just charity—it’s an investment in stability, diplomacy, and American interests and it saves American lives too.
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The Kremlin continues to praise Musk for the job he is doing.
February 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The Kremlin continues to praise Musk for the job he is doing.
Absolutely this!!
@sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov
@whitehouse.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov
@repjasmine.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social
And everyone in Congress.
We need you to be our voices.
@whitehouse.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov
@repjasmine.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social
And everyone in Congress.
We need you to be our voices.
What The F***?!
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Absolutely this!!