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Grumpy Old Lefty Git 🏴Ⓐ #Ubuntu
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"If you want to have a REALLY GOOD TIME at a party, just point a camera at fellow party attendees & order Grok to come up with ever nastier, more tasteless insults to embarrass them! TEE HEE HEE!"

This is an EIGHT-YEAR-OLD's idea of "a REALLY GOOD TIME at a party"!

No wonder Elon invents AI pals.
Mosaic of photos of Elon Musk laughing his head off at his own "jokes". Superimposed text is a possible portrayal of his thoughts: "If you want to have a REALLY GOOD TIME at a party, just insult the HELL out of everyone else there! Better still: get Grok to do it for you! "Hey, I wonder why the only people who ever invite me to parties these days are groveling sycophants with no imagination and no sense of humor of their own?!"
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
A few weeks ago (while Leigh was temporarily suspended), I was bsky-searching for her fave ("Creator has allowed") meme, but it - without ALT text - was impossible to find. (I also searched internet images.)

So I created a new one for her, using her bsky avatar👇

To be safe, I'll download "Creator"
Leigh wearing her tear-gas-protection keffiyeh and giving a [woolen-gloved] peace sign (or is it a V-for-victory sign? V for Vengeance?). Upper text: POWER ON! Lower text: DON'T get in my way!
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
Aside from @reprashida.govpeeps.us, please name me any other heroes currently in Congress.

Warning: anyone who waited 18 months (until majority opinion was agreed on this) to call what's happening in Palestine a genocide (and this includes AOC & Bernie) is disbarred from the title "hero".

👇👇Also👇👇
Hakeem Jeffries & Chuck Schumer smile for the camera and hold a sign which reads "Anyone who supports EITHER of us as leader of Dems in our respective chambers has relinquished the right to be called brave."
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
Aside from @reprashida.govpeeps.us, please name me any other heroes currently in Congress.

Warning: anyone who waited 18 months (until majority opinion was agreed on this) to call what's happening in Palestine a genocide (and this includes AOC & Bernie) is disbarred from the title "hero".

👇👇Also👇👇
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer hold a sign which reads "Anyone who supports EITHER of us as leader of Dems in our respective chambers has relinquished the right to be called brave."
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
>>If people can’t perceive and understand reality clearly, then everything goes to hell. Nobody knows what to think, how to act, how to vote or how to live if they can’t determine what’s true or false. Bring these new technologies to heel by any means necessary. It’s about basic self-defense<<
Your right to extend your fist ends at my nose. These products threaten to erode the fabric of our society. They are attacking people’s ability to understand reality and sort out fact from fiction. They are driving people insane. If fraud is illegal, than these abuses should be illegal. Fraud isn’t considered protected speech, because it hurts people and is detrimental to a functioning society. Generative AI deception shouldn’t be protected for precisely those same reasons. Tech plutocrats should not be allowed to profit from sowing deception, confusion, and mental illness. The collective has the right to protect itself from harm from destructive individuals. The state is a gentler tool for this than guillotines. Governments should intervene to end these assaults on our ability to perceive and understand our world.
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
Thank you! Thank you!

And now here's one from the great - the IMMORTAL - Janis:

WaaaaaaaaAAAA!

🎵Cry baby
Cry baby
Cry baby
Honey, welcome back home

I know she told you
Hon', I know she told you that she loved you
Much more than I did
But I know that she left you
And you swear that you just...🎶
The Pape belts into a Janis Joplin number. His backing band is struck speechless! WaaaaaaaaAAAA! 🎵Cry baby Cry baby Cry baby Honey, welcome back home I know she told you Hon', I know she told you that she loved you Much more than I did But I know that she left you And you swear that you just don't know why But you know, hon', I'll always I'll always be around If you ever want me Come on and cry, cry baby Cry baby, cry Cry baby Oh honey, welcome back home Don't you know Honey, ain't nobody ever gonna love you The way I try to do Who'll take all your pain And your heartache too? And if you need me you know that I'll always be around If you ever want me Come on and cry, cry baby Cry baby Cry baby Oh, daddy, like you always sayin' to do And when you walk around the world, babe You said you'd try to look for the end of the road You might find out later that the road'll end in Detroit Hon', the road'll even end in Kathmandu You can go all around the world Tryin' to find something to do with your life, baby When you only gotta do one thing well You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe You got a woman waitin' for you there All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one woman And that'll be the end of the road, babe I know you got more tears to share, babe So come on, come on Come on, come on, come on And cry, cry baby Cry baby Cry And if you ever feel a little lonely, dear I want you to come on, come on to mama now And if you ever want a little love of a woman Come on and baby, baby, baby, babe, babe, baby now Cry baby, yeah🎶
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
If morning's echo says we've sinned
It was what I wanted now
And if we're the victims of the night
I won't be blinded by the light

Just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, Baby
Just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel
Then slowly turn away
I won't beg you...
The Pape croons into a microphone, in front of his backing singers. 🎵There'll be no strings to bind your hands Not if my love can find your heart. And there's no need to take a stand For it was I who chose to start. I see no need to take me home. I'm old enough to face the dawn. Just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel. Just touch my cheek before you leave me, Baby. Just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel. Then slowly turn away from me... Maybe the sun's light will be dim And it won't matter anyhow. If morning's echo says we've sinned, It was what I wanted now. And if we're the victims of the night, I won't be blinded by the light. Just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel. Just touch my cheek before you leave me, Baby. Just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel. Then slowly turn away. I won't beg you to stay with me. Through the tears Of the days, Of the years... Baby, Baby, Baby, just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel. Just touch my cheek before you leave me, Baby. Just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel. Just touch my cheek before you leave me, oh my Baby. Just call me Angel Of The Morning, Angel. Just touch my cheek before you leave me, Baby🎶 ("Angel Of The Morning", written by Chip Taylor)
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
And that poor sap Charlie Brown falls for it EVERY SINGLE TIME!

A revised definition of insanity could be: "The belief that Dem politicians are going to keep their campaign promises after they get your vote, even though they haven't done so the last 20 times you voted for them".
Obama & Biden facing each other, nose almost touching nose, sharing a big joke. Upper text - Obama: "The joke's on the voters... and ESPECIALLY women!" Lower text - Biden: "YEAH! Because if Dems ever actually SOLVED the Pro-Choice issue, we'd lose one of our major means of asking for donations!"
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Zoe Warren!

If you still think Dems are going to do anything EFFECTIVE to protect Women's Reproductive Rights, you NEED to watch this video!

"Fun" fact: Dems used scare tactics re: the SCOTUS Dobbs ruling to raise $12M in 52 hours "to protect WRR"... & used part of that to back Anti-Choice Dems
Obama & Biden facing each other, nose almost touching nose, sharing a big joke. Upper text - We both used "Women's Reproductive Rights" as an IMPORTANT campaign issue in order to get elected... then did diddly-squat when we had Dem majorities in House & Senate! HEEHEEHEEHEEHEE! Lower text - Biden: "And get this! As a US senator, I voted TWICE to leave the abortion rights issue up to individual states. EXACTLY what the conservative SCOTUS ruled in Dobbs!" Obama & Biden facing each other, nose almost touching nose, sharing a big joke. Upper text - Obama: "The joke's on the voters... and ESPECIALLY women!" Lower text - Biden: "YEAH! Because if Dems ever actually SOLVED the Pro-Choice issue, we'd lose one of our major means of asking for donations!"
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
#2 of 2) Under your own reading, if Dems are going to "destroy human civilization", what's the fucking point of playing nicey-nicey to marginalised people on the way to doing so?! But they DON'T: only pretend to. See #1

Same with Abortion Rights, BTW: cynically used to get votes: negligible action.
An older Barack Obama places a ribbon with a medallion around a younger Barack Obama's neck. Younger Barack Obama is grinning and says "Yes, we CAN!" Older Barack Obama frowns and says "But I'm not gonna!"
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
#2 of 2) Under your own reading, if Dems are going to "destroy human civilization", what's the fucking point of playing nicey-nicey to marginalised people on the way to doing so?! But they DON'T: only pretend to. See #1

Same with Abortion Rights, BTW: cynically used to get votes: negligible action.
An older Barack Obama places a ribbon with a medallion around a younger Barack Obama's neck. Younger Barack Obama is grinning and says "Yes, we CAN!" Older Barack Obama frowns and says "But I'm not gonna!"
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
>>[... I]f my siblings were murdering civilians I would immediately become their enemy. I wouldn’t defend my brother if he was going around shooting children in the head [...] Genocide doesn’t magically become acceptable if the perpetrators are your “siblings”, unless you are a sociopath.<<
I don’t know about you, but if my siblings were murdering civilians I would immediately become their enemy. I wouldn’t defend my brother if he was going around shooting children in the head like IDF snipers have been doing in Gaza, in fact I would feel a special responsibility to stop him exactly because he is my brother. Genocide doesn’t magically become acceptable if the perpetrators are your “siblings”, unless you are a sociopath.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
Hoo boy. LOTS to unpack here!

>>[Former Obama speechwriter Sarah] Hurwitz went on to say that Holocaust education has begun backfiring, because it has been giving young people THE WRONG IMPRESSION that genocide is always bad.<<

Basically, she said that murdering children is OK as long as 🇮🇱 does it
Hoo boy. Lots to unpack here. It’s just so fascinating to see a former White House speechwriter making so many of the points that anti-Zionists have been making for years, but taking the exact opposite meaning from them: The mainstream legacy media has always hidden anti-Israel views from the public — and that was a good thing. Social media has now given Palestinians the ability to expose the truth about Israel’s abuses — and that’s a bad thing. People aren’t falling for the Zionist spin and narrative-diddling anymore because they’ve seen the carnage in Gaza with their own eyes — and that’s a problem. People who learned from Holocaust education that genocide is wrong have been applying those same lessons to the genocide in Gaza — and this means they’re “confused”. Hurwitz isn’t denying Israel’s abuses or framing its genocidal atrocities as the problem, she’s just coming right out and saying that people obtaining information and moral clarity about those abuses is the problem. The atrocities aren’t wrong, what’s wrong is people seeing those atrocities and calling them what they are. I love the way she complains that she looks “obscene” for trying to lay out arguments and narratives justifying the Gaza holocaust for people who’ve seen the “wall of carnage” from the genocide. I mean, yes. Yes obviously you’re going to look obscene if you try to tell someone why raw video footage of massacres, mutilated children and emaciated bodies is actually showing something that is justifiable and acceptable. You can’t stand in front of a pile of child corpses justifying their murder and then whine when people ignore your spinmeistering and keep staring at the tiny bodies. That’s like murdering an entire family and then telling the cops, “But you’re not listening to my reasons for killing them!” They’re doing the normal thing while you are being obscene.
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
Michelle Obama: "You are not ready for a woman who lies on behalf of a psychopathic, child-slaughtering, foreign country which is either bribing or blackmailing (or both) most* of the elected officials in DC!"

* ALL BUT FOUR of the Dems in Congress have accepted donations from the pro-Israel lobby!
Photo of Harris arrogantly saying "I'm speaking!" (to silence anti-genocide protestors). Superimposed text in yellow: Criticising a woman who pledged "UNWAVERING support" for psychopaths carrying out a genocide is NOT being "anti-woman"! It's anti-genocide. And in red: And to DEFEND a genocide-enabler JUST BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN is as sexist as hell!
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Harris is a 100% cynical hypocrite who wept about Palestinian children's deaths while pledging UNWAVERING support for their murderers.

A cynical hypocrisy also evident in her part (as AG of Ca) in the imprisonment of hundreds of people for simple possession... when she herself had smoked weed.
A beautiful mosaic of Kamala Harris made out of [photos of] all the [hundreds of] Black men she locked up and kept in prison past their release date for cheap prison labor. Many of these men were incarcerated for simple possession of marihuana - which Harris, herself, has smoked. (When asked in an interview whether she had, she GIGGLED! A "joke" on all those whom she'd imprisoned - for doing exactly the same - which is funny only to herself. What a fucking, empowered HYPOCRITE!) The mosaic shows her laughing and clapping, TERRIBLY pleased with herself.
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
American speak at the DNC... while inviting multiple Republicans to do so.

She supported the genocide 100%!

Her criticising Biden now and saying "We should have done more" is just crass opportunism, a vain attempt to claw back some integrity and decency by someone who never had any.
Laughing Kamala Harris thinking: So... all those aides who warned me that I'd lose unless I unequivocally pledged to stop the weapons supply were RIGHT! HAHAHAHA! Who'd a thunk it?! Now I've just got to convince the dupes - I mean VOTERS - that I was really anti-genocide all the time...
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
"anti-women illiterates"?!

What the FUCKING HELL?!

How many women (and CHILDREN) were killed under Biden's watch... while Harris repeated LONG-DEBUNKED lies* even after the Israelis had admitted that they'd made them up?!

* in order to "justify" continuing to send bombs to kill women & children
Photo of Harris arrogantly saying "I'm speaking!" (to silence anti-genocide protestors). Superimposed text in yellow: Criticising a woman who pledged "UNWAVERING support" for psychopaths carrying out a genocide is NOT being "anti-woman"! It's anti-genocide. And in red: And to DEFEND a genocide-enabler JUST BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN is as sexist as hell!
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
"anti-women illiterates"?!

What the FUCKING HELL?!

How many women (and CHILDREN) were killed under Biden's watch... while Harris repeated LONG-DEBUNKED lies* even after the Israelis had admitted that they'd made them up?!

* in order to "justify" continuing to send bombs to kill women & children
Photo of Harris arrogantly saying "I'm speaking!" (to silence anti-genocide protestors). Superimposed text in yellow: Criticising a woman who pledged "UNWAVERING support" for psychopaths carrying out a genocide is NOT being "anti-woman"! It's anti-genocide. And in red: And to DEFEND a genocide-enabler JUST BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN is as sexist as hell!
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
If an *ISRAELI government minister* was talking about unleashing a HOLOCAUST *back in Feb., 2008*, can Samantha/S'mantha What's-her-face‡ - @cheesecakechik.bsky.social - and her ilk stop insisting that what's happening now isn't one?!

‡ who last year posted "A genocide is not a holocaust"
🙄🙄🙄
iman - @imanisthere.bsky.social - posted a screenshot of a stupid post post by Samantha who was complaining about people calling ”UNWAVERING support for Israel " Kamala "Holocaust Harris" and drawing a correlation between Green Party voters and Neo-Nazis! Iman posted it with the comment "Posting for the blocked", because Samantha blocked everyone who disagreed with her cheerleading for genocide-enabler Harris and/or her insistence that what was happening in Gaza WASN'T a holocaust. Jimmy Hollis i Dickson - @jimmyhid1.bsky.social - quote-reposted iman's post with the comment: Her stupidest remark was "A genocide is not a holocaust". 🙄🤦‍♂️😬 These people think that the Nazis invented the holocaust & that there's only been one in the whole of history! The Nazis adopted the holocaust from the Turkish holocaust of Armenians, and concentration camps from the British in Africa.
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
This is what America - excuse me: USA - ALWAYS has been. Slaughtering Native People, Slavery, Hunting escaped slaves as if they were animals, Lynching Black men & boys for looking "the wrong way" at White women, Hunting "Gooks" in Indochina...

People who say "This isn't what 🇺🇸 is!" are in denial!
🙄
Two ARSEHOLES with assault rifles slung on their backs at a snacks counter in a grocery store. Text: And what kind of paranoid, gun-worshipping PSYCHOPATH needs to take an assault rifle to go shopping for ice cream?!
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
Palestine: 278 journalists killed in the 25 months since 7th Oct, 2023.

Iraq: 228 in 9 years (2003-11)

Afghanistan: 76 in 21 years (2001-21)

In most conflicts, wearing a PRESS jacket is like wearing a Red Cross jacket: it's a sign that they're not combatants, NOT to be shot at.

In Gaza, it's a 🎯
Babykiller Netanyahu is addressing sharpshooters of the IOF (Israeli Offense Forces / Israeli Occupation Forces): "Remember: you get EXTRA points if you kill journalists, aid workers, and/or medics! "Oh yeah! And CHILDREN! "MWAHAHAHAHA!"
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
"Sir Keir has one eye on Zack Polanski's party and another on Reform"

Making him either cross-eyed or wall-eyed. Neither of which is a good condition to be in. He needs to decide whether he wants leftist supporters or far-right supporters.

Up until now, it's been obvious that he prefers the latter
"Sir Keir has one eye on Zack Polanski's party and another on Reform" - The Telegraph Retouched photo of Keith with eyeballs pointing in opposite directions.
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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@jimobx.bsky.social ("someONE who IS grieving the loss of a father and husband")

Was Dick Cheney the FATHER of his wife, Lynn?! 🤔😮🤯 But, but, but, HOW is that possible if they were born in the same year, 1941!
Or did he commit bigamy with 1? 2? of his daughters? If so, 🇺🇸 public has a right to know!
A photo of Dick Cheney In yellow letters: THE CHENEY FILES As well as being a war criminal, an outspoken proponent of torture, and a mass murderer, was Sick Dick ALSO an incestuous bigamist?! Were his daughters underaged at the time? In diagonal, red, capital letters: WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW! OPEN THE CHENEY FILES!
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
@jimobx.bsky.social ("someONE who IS grieving the loss of a father and husband")

Was Dick Cheney the FATHER of his wife, Lynn?! 🤔😮🤯 But, but, but, HOW is that possible if they were born in the same year, 1941!

Or did he commit bigamy with one of his daughters? If so, 🇺🇸 public has a right to know!
A photo of Dick Cheney In yellow letters: THE CHENEY FILES As well as being a war criminal, an outspoken proponent of torture, and a mass murderer, was Sick Dick ALSO an incestuous bigamist?! Were his daughters underaged at the time? In diagonal, red, capital letters: WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW! OPEN THE CHENEY FILES!
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social
I suspect that the OP is going to block many of us who pointed out that praising a war criminal / mass murderer out of politeness or sympathy for his familyis NOT how a decent person acts... and that the "values" that Biden & Cheney shared should be abhorrent to anyone with a gram of humanity.

So:
Screenshot to preserve the connection between a disgusting OP and my 2 quote-reposts of it, since the OP will probably block me, making the connection invisible.
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM