SomeRandomOptimist
@somerandomoptimist.bsky.social
Gamer. Dog guy. Slayer of nonsense. Anime enthusiast. Haver of optimism. Everything's actually going to be alright in the end.
I don't think Stephen Miller is really thinking about anything. I think he's caught up in a putrid mix of delirium and boredom.
January 25, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I don't think Stephen Miller is really thinking about anything. I think he's caught up in a putrid mix of delirium and boredom.
With a hairline that looks like he's at least 50 yrs old.
January 25, 2026 at 6:07 PM
With a hairline that looks like he's at least 50 yrs old.
Noble as this is, you're wrong. Americans showed the world exactly what it is on November 2024.
January 25, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Noble as this is, you're wrong. Americans showed the world exactly what it is on November 2024.
How is it doomery? Where am I actually wrong?
January 25, 2026 at 12:47 AM
How is it doomery? Where am I actually wrong?
Not in this life, unfortunately. America had its chance in 2024.
January 25, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Not in this life, unfortunately. America had its chance in 2024.
Schumer says lots of stuff. All I see here is a promise of a temporary blockade that has no real power to force Republicans to do anything.
January 25, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Schumer says lots of stuff. All I see here is a promise of a temporary blockade that has no real power to force Republicans to do anything.
IOW it's not really about America. Plenty of other places would do the same for you if you happened to live there.
Which is to say you don't really care about America specifically at all - and that's exactly how I feel too.
No one cares if America goes away. Not really
Which is to say you don't really care about America specifically at all - and that's exactly how I feel too.
No one cares if America goes away. Not really
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
IOW it's not really about America. Plenty of other places would do the same for you if you happened to live there.
Which is to say you don't really care about America specifically at all - and that's exactly how I feel too.
No one cares if America goes away. Not really
Which is to say you don't really care about America specifically at all - and that's exactly how I feel too.
No one cares if America goes away. Not really
Is that just a hope or is that actually happening?
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Is that just a hope or is that actually happening?
Why? Serious question.
If it's just because you and your family live here, plenty of countries could do just as well.
If it's a moral imperative, then I would say America has already forfeited that distinction in 2024.
In what way is America worthy of being venerated anymore?
If it's just because you and your family live here, plenty of countries could do just as well.
If it's a moral imperative, then I would say America has already forfeited that distinction in 2024.
In what way is America worthy of being venerated anymore?
January 25, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Why? Serious question.
If it's just because you and your family live here, plenty of countries could do just as well.
If it's a moral imperative, then I would say America has already forfeited that distinction in 2024.
In what way is America worthy of being venerated anymore?
If it's just because you and your family live here, plenty of countries could do just as well.
If it's a moral imperative, then I would say America has already forfeited that distinction in 2024.
In what way is America worthy of being venerated anymore?
We all know this bill will get passed in the end. Anything else is just deceptive copage.
January 25, 2026 at 12:19 AM
We all know this bill will get passed in the end. Anything else is just deceptive copage.
No dooming, but shutdowns always end the same way. The bill will get passed sooner or later. Democrats genuinely do not have the power to stop it.
January 25, 2026 at 12:17 AM
No dooming, but shutdowns always end the same way. The bill will get passed sooner or later. Democrats genuinely do not have the power to stop it.
Tens of millions of Americans told you quite clearly in 2024 that that's just a dream.
You are free to try of course. As more and more die like Alex Pretti did.
You are free to try of course. As more and more die like Alex Pretti did.
January 25, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Tens of millions of Americans told you quite clearly in 2024 that that's just a dream.
You are free to try of course. As more and more die like Alex Pretti did.
You are free to try of course. As more and more die like Alex Pretti did.
And so when people say to keep up the fight all I ask is *for what*?
For an America that doesn't exist anymore because some people can't bring themselves to admit that it's over?
For an America that doesn't exist anymore because some people can't bring themselves to admit that it's over?
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
And so when people say to keep up the fight all I ask is *for what*?
For an America that doesn't exist anymore because some people can't bring themselves to admit that it's over?
For an America that doesn't exist anymore because some people can't bring themselves to admit that it's over?
Even if we do, so what? That's not going to make America a trustworthy ally again or make anyone believe that we won't do this again someday.
That was the bet we made in 2020, a one-time mistake.
It wasn't. And there's no getting past that.
That was the bet we made in 2020, a one-time mistake.
It wasn't. And there's no getting past that.
January 24, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Even if we do, so what? That's not going to make America a trustworthy ally again or make anyone believe that we won't do this again someday.
That was the bet we made in 2020, a one-time mistake.
It wasn't. And there's no getting past that.
That was the bet we made in 2020, a one-time mistake.
It wasn't. And there's no getting past that.
They're getting more consistently aggressive. That's not a mistake.
There will be more.
There will be more.
January 24, 2026 at 9:54 PM
They're getting more consistently aggressive. That's not a mistake.
There will be more.
There will be more.
Whether it ever happens again doesn't matter.
It's slowly begun to dawn on me for a while that I genuinely don't believe in this country anymore. They've chosen the wrong path and they can walk it on their own.
It's slowly begun to dawn on me for a while that I genuinely don't believe in this country anymore. They've chosen the wrong path and they can walk it on their own.
January 24, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Whether it ever happens again doesn't matter.
It's slowly begun to dawn on me for a while that I genuinely don't believe in this country anymore. They've chosen the wrong path and they can walk it on their own.
It's slowly begun to dawn on me for a while that I genuinely don't believe in this country anymore. They've chosen the wrong path and they can walk it on their own.
It's more effective in that a feeling isn't open to being debunked and people feel disrespected when the party in power tries anyway.
If you *have* to talk about groceries or housing, fine, but keep it occasional.
If you *have* to talk about groceries or housing, fine, but keep it occasional.
January 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
It's more effective in that a feeling isn't open to being debunked and people feel disrespected when the party in power tries anyway.
If you *have* to talk about groceries or housing, fine, but keep it occasional.
If you *have* to talk about groceries or housing, fine, but keep it occasional.
Insofar as winning? Anger and fear.
There's no need to explain. Impress what people feel already in a country they don't trust and where mothers can get their faces blown off.
Lean more on broad concepts like government overreach and brutality and let their imaginations fill in the rest.
There's no need to explain. Impress what people feel already in a country they don't trust and where mothers can get their faces blown off.
Lean more on broad concepts like government overreach and brutality and let their imaginations fill in the rest.
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Insofar as winning? Anger and fear.
There's no need to explain. Impress what people feel already in a country they don't trust and where mothers can get their faces blown off.
Lean more on broad concepts like government overreach and brutality and let their imaginations fill in the rest.
There's no need to explain. Impress what people feel already in a country they don't trust and where mothers can get their faces blown off.
Lean more on broad concepts like government overreach and brutality and let their imaginations fill in the rest.
NVIDIA's up a little bit in Futures, but stormy seas on the horizon if this was just the opening shot.
January 21, 2026 at 3:02 AM
NVIDIA's up a little bit in Futures, but stormy seas on the horizon if this was just the opening shot.
You're explaining too much.
Yapping about money and distinctions is just an opening for a professional to slit your throat (rhetorically speaking, of course) on actual food and housing.
You're lucky you didn't slip up like that during the campaign.
Yapping about money and distinctions is just an opening for a professional to slit your throat (rhetorically speaking, of course) on actual food and housing.
You're lucky you didn't slip up like that during the campaign.
January 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM
You're explaining too much.
Yapping about money and distinctions is just an opening for a professional to slit your throat (rhetorically speaking, of course) on actual food and housing.
You're lucky you didn't slip up like that during the campaign.
Yapping about money and distinctions is just an opening for a professional to slit your throat (rhetorically speaking, of course) on actual food and housing.
You're lucky you didn't slip up like that during the campaign.
I mean it worked so well for the highly publicized January 6th committee hearings, right?
Oh. Wait.
You can't save a people who don't want to be saved.
Oh. Wait.
You can't save a people who don't want to be saved.
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I mean it worked so well for the highly publicized January 6th committee hearings, right?
Oh. Wait.
You can't save a people who don't want to be saved.
Oh. Wait.
You can't save a people who don't want to be saved.
Poor choices abound, sir.
January 18, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Poor choices abound, sir.
The DLC's handpicked candidate, sir.
January 17, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The DLC's handpicked candidate, sir.
Trump can't snap his fingers and make Congress pass hundreds of billions, if not trillions, in a hugely unpopular bailout to AI companies that people hate anyway.
Particularly in an election year where Republicans are facing brutal headwinds anyway?
It's just not going to happen.
Particularly in an election year where Republicans are facing brutal headwinds anyway?
It's just not going to happen.
January 16, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Trump can't snap his fingers and make Congress pass hundreds of billions, if not trillions, in a hugely unpopular bailout to AI companies that people hate anyway.
Particularly in an election year where Republicans are facing brutal headwinds anyway?
It's just not going to happen.
Particularly in an election year where Republicans are facing brutal headwinds anyway?
It's just not going to happen.
It *is* a lot to take on all at once, even for him. Venezuela, Greenland, the Fed, ICE and whatever other nonsense is surely brewing.
Almost like a dying man's last gasp at cashing in while he can.
Almost.
Almost like a dying man's last gasp at cashing in while he can.
Almost.
January 12, 2026 at 5:17 AM
It *is* a lot to take on all at once, even for him. Venezuela, Greenland, the Fed, ICE and whatever other nonsense is surely brewing.
Almost like a dying man's last gasp at cashing in while he can.
Almost.
Almost like a dying man's last gasp at cashing in while he can.
Almost.