LightNews LightNews
kludwick.bsky.social
@kludwick.bsky.social
140 followers 1K following 8 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
kludwick.bsky.social
So that's why Adderall is on backorder nationwide. Trump is snorting ALL of it
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
kludwick.bsky.social
a close up of a man with his eyes closed and his mouth open .
ALT: a close up of a man with his eyes closed and his mouth open .
media.tenor.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Reposted
snowden.st
It is, as they say, fire.
The fellow is a catastrophe. But that is no reason why we should not find him interesting, as a character and as an event. Consider the circumstances. Here is a man possessed of a bottomless resentment and a festering desire for revenge; a man ten times a failure, extremely lazy, incapable of steady work; a man who has spent long periods in institutions; a disappointed bohemian artist; a total good-for-nothing. And here is a people obsessed with powerful though far less justifiable feelings of defeat and inferiority, and unable to think of anything save how to retrieve its lost "honor." And then he— who had learned nothing, and in his dreamy, obstinate arrogance never would learn anything; who had neither technical nor physical discipline, could not sit a horse, or drive a car, or fly a plane, or do aught that men do, even to begetting a child—he develops the one thing needful to establish a connection between him and the people: a gift of oratory. It is oratory unspeakably inferior in kind, but magnetic in its effect on the masses: a weapon of definitely histrionic, even hysterical power, which he thrusts into the nation's wound and turns round. He rouses the populace with images of his own insulted grandeur, deafens it with promises, makes out of the people's sufferings a vehicle for his own greatness, his ascent to fantastic heights, to unlimited power, to incredible compensations and over-compensations. He rises to such a
February 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
kludwick.bsky.social
(On the day before each anniversary)
"We're gonna need a bigger number"
June 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM