rustyeire
@rustyeire.bsky.social
Proud Dem. USAF Vet. Lawyer, Emeritus. #AT40. #TeamPete. #NoKings. Stevens-Eliot-Yeats-Heaney-Faulkner devotee. The music died when the Beatles stopped making it. ☘️Éire☘️. O merciful gods, smite the MAGA mutts! Republicans: Hamlet's "maggots in a dead dog."
Pinned
And there it is. . . .
Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses
His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.
www.theatlantic.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
And there it is. . . .
"ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say." These goons, and the vermin that "lead" them are Nazis, plain and simple. . . .
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say." These goons, and the vermin that "lead" them are Nazis, plain and simple. . . .
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Must read stuff from Tom Nichols at The Atlantic @radiofreetom.bsky.social . . . .
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Must read stuff from Tom Nichols at The Atlantic @radiofreetom.bsky.social . . . .
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Much of this angst results from all those court decisions holding "Trump, you lose," & then the cretins go on doing what they were hauled into court for in the 1st place. US jurisprudence is OK (with the notable exception of SCOTUS & the 5th Cir. Ct of Appeals). It's ENFORCEMENT that's the problem.
Said as Trump is losing court cases left and right across the country. Again, why do people doomer-post stuff like this?
Well to be honest so are American courts and American law. We have entered a post law era.
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Much of this angst results from all those court decisions holding "Trump, you lose," & then the cretins go on doing what they were hauled into court for in the 1st place. US jurisprudence is OK (with the notable exception of SCOTUS & the 5th Cir. Ct of Appeals). It's ENFORCEMENT that's the problem.
You and 7 other moronic Dems voted with the Republicans on the shutdown "deal." STFU.
Kaine: "These two Guard members should've been at home at Thanksgiving celebrating Thanksgiving with their families, not deployed in a political deployment to do law enforcement in DC that the DC police and other local law enforcement agencies can do ... I mourn for them."
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You and 7 other moronic Dems voted with the Republicans on the shutdown "deal." STFU.
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here's today's post: "inside the Mad King’s court: traitors, war crimers and thieves" — which side are these fuckers on?
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inside the Mad King’s court: traitors, war crimers and thieves
which side are these fuckers on?
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November 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
here's today's post: "inside the Mad King’s court: traitors, war crimers and thieves" — which side are these fuckers on?
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You see the 28-point terms (sometimes in translated language based on odd Russian turns of phrase) & need feckin' Rubio to tell you it's "Russia's wish list"? Are you all imbeciles? Is anyone at all left in the US Congress going to stand up for Ukraine? for freedom and democracy? for human decency?
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
You see the 28-point terms (sometimes in translated language based on odd Russian turns of phrase) & need feckin' Rubio to tell you it's "Russia's wish list"? Are you all imbeciles? Is anyone at all left in the US Congress going to stand up for Ukraine? for freedom and democracy? for human decency?
Nailed it. Best magazine cover of the year, if not the decade.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nailed it. Best magazine cover of the year, if not the decade.
Trump's trying his damndest. . . .
Man I'm pretty drunk but I sure do love America
All its low-down dirtiness and cosmopolitism and revolutionary ideas about souls created equal by God with the inalienable human right to rule themselves
This messy beautiful place. No one can talk me out of my love for this stupid fuckin country
All its low-down dirtiness and cosmopolitism and revolutionary ideas about souls created equal by God with the inalienable human right to rule themselves
This messy beautiful place. No one can talk me out of my love for this stupid fuckin country
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Trump's trying his damndest. . . .
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You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?
Please. DO NOT MISS THIS INTERVIEW. Then? Get the book. Read it. Period. Stop.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Please. DO NOT MISS THIS INTERVIEW. Then? Get the book. Read it. Period. Stop.
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The only reason I’ll remain a registered Democrat is so I can vote for whoever primaries Chuck Schumer when he’s up for reelection. The Party is no more than a pathetic collection of eunuchs, incompetents, and capitulators. We deserve what we get. Senate Dems are worthless. . . .
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The only reason I’ll remain a registered Democrat is so I can vote for whoever primaries Chuck Schumer when he’s up for reelection. The Party is no more than a pathetic collection of eunuchs, incompetents, and capitulators. We deserve what we get. Senate Dems are worthless. . . .
Sorry, Ken, but history is going up in smoke. Right before your eyes. Make a series about that.
"I think when we take the past and understand it, then it gives us a guide to the present," filmmaker Ken Burns tells John Avlon. "What is it that we share in common? Where are the places where we can come together? One of the places that we share is this history."
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Sorry, Ken, but history is going up in smoke. Right before your eyes. Make a series about that.
King, who I once thought was a reasonable, halfway intelligent politician, is a moron . . . or on the take. The GOP is a party of Nazis & unapologetic racists. The Demsa and their pilot fish "Independents," are eunuchs and imbeciles. I'm a registered Democrat. I will not be by next election day.
King: So I believe that we are closer tonight to a vote on the ACA tax credits than we were this morning. This agreement tonight is a win for the American people.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
King, who I once thought was a reasonable, halfway intelligent politician, is a moron . . . or on the take. The GOP is a party of Nazis & unapologetic racists. The Demsa and their pilot fish "Independents," are eunuchs and imbeciles. I'm a registered Democrat. I will not be by next election day.
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80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
NO. Chuck feckin' Schumer sold us out. And if his "NO" vote makes you think otherwise, you belong in a different line of work.
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
NO. Chuck feckin' Schumer sold us out. And if his "NO" vote makes you think otherwise, you belong in a different line of work.
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So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?
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This is what weak, vacillating, incompetent, impotent Democrats do. Every fucking time. We deserve what we get. Period. Stop.
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is what weak, vacillating, incompetent, impotent Democrats do. Every fucking time. We deserve what we get. Period. Stop.
Brava, AOC. Any Dem senator that votes for this "deal" should be voted out of office & then tarred & feathered by constituents. But I'm a realist, a Democrat who's watched the party's "leadership" capitulate over & over, & this time will be no different. Please, AOC. Primary Schumer. I beg you.
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Brava, AOC. Any Dem senator that votes for this "deal" should be voted out of office & then tarred & feathered by constituents. But I'm a realist, a Democrat who's watched the party's "leadership" capitulate over & over, & this time will be no different. Please, AOC. Primary Schumer. I beg you.
Get a feckin' spine, Tim. This has Schumer stink all over it. Cannot wait for AOC to primary him.
getting two pinky swears from Republicans, including one that they will merely follow the law, is laughably thin gruel
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Get a feckin' spine, Tim. This has Schumer stink all over it. Cannot wait for AOC to primary him.
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This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
Maybe. But one "Biker Like an Icon" can take the sugar out of a whole boatload of "Silly Love Songs."
No one can do schmaltz like Sir Paul McCartney. #AT40
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Maybe. But one "Biker Like an Icon" can take the sugar out of a whole boatload of "Silly Love Songs."