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T.D. Powers
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An American on a quest to work in political messaging, speech writing, strategy, advertising, and/or communications on behalf of DEMOCRACY.

A human being for humanity.

T.D. is for True Democracy.
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When an authoritarian dissolves a legislative body, they do not intend to bring that same thing back. -- WWVD (What would Vlad do?): Have kompromat in his possession about subjects like Epstein in order to control a U.S. President over many years? Have the U.S. Congress dissolved and/or make it more like the Duma? What would Vlad do or desire (WWVD): Take down the US’s juggernaut economy numerous notches? Shrink the global relationship-building power of the US’s international aid? Have the US start a global trade war? (It’s not only about the US threatening to take over its neighbors and break its alliances.) -- Let’s not use outdated and misleading labels like “reactionary” when what we have long been faced with is more accurately and more meaningfully termed “regressive.” -- Let’s not use labels like “conservative,” “originalist,” “textualist,” etc. when what we have long been faced with is simply single-minded, partisan [insert party name]-ism. -- Those who force their policies upon a population feel insecure about whether their policies are sound— or else they simply don’t care that they are not. -- Let’s stop simply saying, “tariffs,” and take care every time just to say, “taxes,” or let’s say, “tariff-taxes,” a redundancy that creates a needed emphasis. And/or fill in the following blank with a name, “_____’s tariff-taxes,” every time, please. -- To those who vote on economic issues: “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. . . . What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.” --Bill Clinton at the DNC in 2024. To everyone: Please repeat this every single day. -- Clinton=Record job creation, balanced budget, surplus to pay off debt. BUSH=BIG DEFICITS, DEBT, RECESSION. Obama=End of econ. crisis, deficit shrinking, record job creation. TRUMP=ECONOMIC CRISIS WORSEND BY HIS COVID BUNGLING. Biden=Econ. crisis managed, record job creation. TRUMP=ECONOMIC DISASTER.
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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In a nation with a president, a vice president, and a speaker of the House, among others, who often sanctimoniously tout supposedly being Christian, one must ask if a person can actually be such while flat out lying to the public essentially every day. -- If you do not care about the well-beings of all of your fellow human beings, are you Christian? If you are driven by hate against your fellow human beings, are you Christian? -- WWVD (What would Vlad do?): Have kompromat in his possession about subjects like Epstein in order to control a U.S. President over many years? Have the U.S. Congress dissolved and/or make it more like the Duma? -- What would Vlad do or desire (WWVD): Take down the US’s juggernaut economy numerous notches? Shrink the global relationship-building power of the US’s international aid? Have the US start a global trade war? (It’s not only about the US threatening to take over its neighbors and break its alliances.) -- Let’s not use outdated and misleading labels like “reactionary” when what we have long been faced with is more accurately and more meaningfully termed “regressive.” -- Let’s not use labels like “conservative,” “originalist,” “textualist,” etc. when what we have long been faced with is simply single-minded, partisan [insert party name]-ism. -- Those who force their policies upon a population feel insecure about whether their policies are sound— or else they simply don’t care that they are not. -- Let’s stop simply saying, “tariffs,” and take care every time just to say, “taxes,” or let’s say, “tariff-taxes,” a redundancy that creates a needed emphasis. -- To those who vote on economic issues: “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. . . . What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.” --Bill Clinton at the DNC in 2024. To everyone: Please repeat this every single day.
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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These things are not unrelated:
WWVD (What would Vlad do?): Have kompromat in his possession about subjects like Epstein in order to control a U.S. President over many years? Have the U.S. Congress dissolved and/or make it more like the Duma? -- What would Vlad do or desire (WWVD): Take down the US’s juggernaut economy numerous notches? Shrink the global relationship-building power of the US’s international aid? Have the US start a global trade war? (It’s not only about the US threatening to take over its neighbors and break its alliances.) -- Let’s not use outdated and misleading labels like “reactionary” when what we have long been faced with is more accurately and more meaningfully termed “regressive.” -- Let’s not use labels like “conservative,” “originalist,” “textualist,” etc. when what we have long been faced with is simply single-minded, partisan [insert party name]-ism. -- Those who force their policies upon a population feel insecure about whether their policies are sound— or else they simply don’t care that they are not. -- Let’s stop simply saying, “tariffs,” and take care every time just to say, “taxes,” or let’s say, “tariff-taxes,” a redundancy that creates a needed emphasis. And/or fill in the following blank with a name, “_____’s tariff-taxes,” every time, please. -- To those who vote on economic issues: “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. . . . What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.” --Bill Clinton at the DNC in 2024. To everyone: Please repeat this every single day. -- Clinton=Record job creation, balanced budget, surplus to pay off debt. Bush=Huge deficits, debt, recession. Obama=Ending the economic crisis, record job creation. Trump=Economic crisis worsened by his COVID-19 bungling. Biden=Economic crisis managed, record job creation. Trump=Economic disaster.
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Let’s not use outdated and misleading labels like “reactionary” when what we have long been faced with is more accurately and more meaningfully termed “regressive.” -- Let’s not use labels like “conservative,” “originalist,” “textualist,” etc. when what we have long been faced with is simply single-minded, partisan [insert party name]-ism. -- Those who force their policies upon a population feel insecure about whether their policies are sound— or else they simply don’t care that they are not. -- Let’s stop simply saying, “tariffs,” and take care every time just to say, “taxes,” or let’s say, “tariff-taxes,” a redundancy that creates a needed emphasis. And/or fill in the following blank with a name, “_____’s tariff-taxes,” every time, please. -- To those who vote on economic issues: “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. . . . What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.” --Bill Clinton at the DNC in 2024. To everyone: Please repeat this every single day. -- Clinton=Record job creation, balanced budget, surplus to pay off debt. Bush=Huge deficits, debt, recession. Obama=Ending the economic crisis, record job creation. Trump=Economic crisis worsened by his COVID-19 bungling. Biden=Economic crisis managed, record job creation. Trump=Economic disaster. -- The causes of most of our nation’s and its people’s ills, unsound theories, hateful thinking, and so on are the shows—and they are mere SHOWS—and publications dumping antidemocratic writing, audio, and visuals all around us, every day, year after year: partisan messaging purporting to be news/journalism; political ads; and talk shows on TV, radio, and the Internet, including podcasts. Some are simply willing to grab money and power by feeding people poison—and it is very lucrative. Think. Question. Share. Enlighten.
October 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Let’s not use labels like “conservative,” “originalist,” “textualist,” etc. when what we have long been faced with is simply single-minded, partisan [insert party name]-ism. -- Let’s not use outdated and misleading labels like “reactionary” when what we have long been faced with is more accurately and more meaningfully termed “regressive.” -- Those who force their policies upon a population feel insecure about whether their policies are sound— or else they simply don’t care that they are not. -- Let’s stop simply saying, “tariffs,” and take care every time just to say, “taxes,” or let’s say, “tariff-taxes,” a redundancy that creates a needed emphasis. And/or fill in the following blank with a name, “_____’s tariff-taxes,” every time, please. -- To those who vote on economic issues: “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. . . . What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.” --Bill Clinton at the DNC in 2024. To everyone: Please repeat this every single day. -- Clinton=Record job creation, balanced budget, surplus to pay off debt. Bush=Huge deficits, debt, recession. Obama=Ending the economic crisis, record job creation. Trump=Economic crisis worsened by his COVID-19 bungling. Biden=Economic crisis managed, record job creation. Trump=Economic disaster. -- The causes of most of our nation’s and its people’s ills, unsound theories, hateful thinking, and so on are the shows—and they are mere SHOWS—and publications dumping antidemocratic writing, audio, and visuals all around us, every day, year after year: partisan messaging purporting to be news/journalism; political ads; and talk shows on TV, radio, and the Internet, including podcasts. Some are simply willing to grab money and power by feeding people poison—and it is very lucrative. Think. Question. Share. Enlighten.
October 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Let’s always remember the almost countless discriminatory POLICIES and PRACTICES across the US's history/present—in housing; banking; hiring; policing; drug criminalization; court systems; education; health care; expressway/highway, heavy industry, and waste management planning; and on and on.
To proclaim US cities as dens of crime caused by their residents’ current democratically elected party-based officials is to admit you know nothing (or else it is to lie) about the socioeconomic effects of discrimination across American history. We could have far better policies and practices that serve everyone.
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Let’s always remember in our political efforts and messaging, the national dumpster fire that threatens to consume our collective morality, democracy, and economy is not simply the work of one leader but a political party –ism over many years now.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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What is the most democratic, mathematical, logical, and moral way for the government of a nation/state, such as the one represented here, to serve its people?
What is the most democratic, mathematical, logical, and moral way for the government of a nation/state, such as the one represented here, to serve its people? Image showing pyramid overlayed with an inverted pyramid of dollar signs.
October 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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A chant—or simply two word-choice options for you to use?
A chant—or simply two word-choice options for you to use? Dump Chump Dump Chump Dump Chump
June 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Insecurity again?
Insecurity again? Those who force their policies upon a population feel insecure about whether their policies are sound—or else they simply don’t care that they are not. @TDPowers.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Some have different words to describe this, but here is certainly one to consider— insanarchy.
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Words matter.
Let’s stop simply saying, “tariffs,” and take care every time just to say, “taxes,” or let’s say, “tariff-taxes,” a redundancy that creates a needed emphasis. And/or fill in the following blank with a name, “_____’s tariff-taxes,” every time, please. @TDPowers.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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About that non-government non-department causing inefficiency… and corruption… and job losses… and class warfare… and death… and direct destruction to the United States of America and its relationships and standing in the world…
About that non-government non-department causing inefficiency… and corruption… and job losses… and class warfare… and death… and direct destruction to the United States of America and its relationships and standing in the world… Once and for all, it’s pronounced “Düsh.”
May 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Some Further Points
Further Points Regarding Insecurity It is the insecure who fret about constructs like manhood and masculinity supposedly being attacked; others tend to define these terms within themselves, and they do not clamor to meet imagined parameters around persons they feel are the same or better nor do they demand sameness from others whom some might see as similar or lesser. This post is, in part, related to the following earlier post: Let’s not call people “strongmen,” especially when they are obviously insecure, which is why they covet power in the first place: such insecure-men take all of the unjust, antidemocratic, inhumane, and sociopathic actions that they do because they feel insecure in their positions and their largely illegitimate grips on power. @TDPowers.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Words matter.
Let’s not call people “strongmen,” especially when they are obviously insecure, which is why they covet power in the first place: such insecure-men take all of the unjust, antidemocratic, inhumane, and sociopathic actions that they do because they feel insecure in their positions and their largely illegitimate grips on power. @TDPowers.bsky.social True Democracy
May 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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What would Vlad desire?
Weaken the US’s name, currency, economy, stability, reliability, alliances, national security, military, Congress, Constitution, judiciary, international aid, diplomacy, democracy, and moral standing; spread disinformation; make more vulnerable the American people’s personal information and classified information; threaten neighbors and the takeover of other regions; wage a global trade war; and incite internal divisions? The principle at work: What would Vlad desire (WWVD)? @TDPowers.bsky.social True Democracy
May 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Even the word “agent” doesn’t quite cover it.
Even the word “agent” doesn’t quite cover it. Stop finding excuses It’s obvious when an American doesn’t simply have an admiration or affinity for Vlad the Corruptor—but is acting as his subject, servant, vassal. It doesn’t take a genius to figure this out. The evidence is overwhelming and in nearly every posture, position, and policy pushed. @TDPowers.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Orwellian world:
Project 2025 Project 1984 When a party’s “priests of power” say, “WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strength is ignorance “Slavery is freedom” Peace is war, what is your response? “Was it possible that [people] could swallow [the party’s lying]? . . . Yes, they swallowed it.” “Have you forgotten about doublethink?” Or, the “memory hole”? In the light of all that has been happening in recent years to control news, books, and information itself, consider another slogan or modus operandi of a party worshiping power: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.” However, “[t]houghtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever.” (Orwell, George. 1984. Signet Classics. 264, 4, 264, 58, 266, 37, 50, 248, 27) @TDPowers.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Questions:
If you do not care about the well-beings of all of your fellow human beings, are you Christian? If you are driven by hate against your fellow human beings, are you Christian?
April 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Think. Question. Share. Enlighten.
The causes of most of our nation’s and its people’s ills, unsound theories, hateful thinking, and so on are the shows—and they are mere SHOWS—and publications dumping antidemocratic writing, audio, and visuals all around us, every day, year after year: partisan messaging purporting to be news/journalism; political ads; and talk shows on TV, radio, and the Internet, including podcasts. Some are simply willing to grab money and power by feeding people poison—and it is very lucrative. Think. Question. Share. Enlighten.
April 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Thank you! Apologies. There was supposed to be alt text. Doesn't look like it went through. It should be here now:
Pro-WHAT? We’ve all been witnessing a political party that is… anti Venezuelan people/lives, anti immigrants of many ethnicities, in fact—a position causing the destruction of the family (parents and children, or whomever). anti Ukrainian people/lives, anti Palestinian people/lives, anti Muslim people/lives generally—and most anyone not purporting to be Christian, anti Black lives mattering too, anti LGBTQIA+ folks/lives, anti life of the mother, anti life-saving science, anti healthcare for all, anti low-income people, anti children and others in dire need—of our AID, and yet pro-pathogen/illness-spreading pro-war (nearly all wars and offensive actions with which we’ve been involved in most of our lifetimes), pro-guns (anti gun safety/regulation), pro-execution by police, vigilantes, and rogue actors, due process be damned pro-torture, pro-death-penalty, pro-li— WHAT? Wait. Actually, “pro-li” sounds about right.
April 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Words matter.
April 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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And remember this:
Original post--please repeat this frequently to whomever you can: Clinton=Record job creation, balanced budget, surplus to pay off debt. And there's this--please repeat this frequently to whomever you can: BUSH=HUGE DEFICITS, DEBT, RECESSION. Obama=End of econ crisis, deficit shrinking, record job creation. TRUMP=ECONOMIC CRISIS WORSEND BY HIS COVID BUNGLING. Biden=Econ crisis managed, record job creation. TRUMP=ECONOMIC DISASTER. Additional text: ‪Jobs slashed. Prices and taxes raised. [Tariffs put in place by the US are taxes—on the American people]. Next up, funnel more of Americans’ money to those who already have most of it. -Idiotic/Insane (like a Fox) Economics: 2025 Edition. Stop finding excuses: it’s obvious when an American doesn’t simply have admiration for Vlad the Corruptor—but is acting as his subject, servant, vassal. It doesn’t take a genius to see this. The evidence is overwhelming and in nearly every posture, position, and policy being pushed. A subservient/vassal US president would, of course, follow Russian orders to have the US threaten its neighbors and position itself to break up NATO (thereby giving cover for Russia attacking Ukraine and elsewhere and for China potentially attacking Taiwan), and take down the US’s juggernaut economy numerous notches, and shrink the global relationship-building power of the US’s international aid, and have the US start a global trade war. Stop finding excuses: it’s obvious when an American doesn’t simply have an admiration or affinity for Vlad the Corruptor—but is acting as his subject, servant, vassal. It doesn’t take a genius to see this. The evidence is overwhelming and in nearly every posture, position, and policy pushed. And there's this: Quote, “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. . . . What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.” --Bill Clinton at the DNC in 2024. (Please repeat this every day.)
April 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Remember, please,
Original post: To those who vote on economic issues: “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. . . . What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans 1.” --Bill Clinton at the DNC in 2024. To everyone: Please repeat this every single day. Additional text: And there's this--please repeat this frequently to whomever you can: Clinton=Record job creation, balanced budget, surplus to pay off debt. And there's this--please repeat this frequently to whomever you can: BUSH=HUGE DEFICITS, DEBT, RECESSION. Obama=End of econ crisis, deficit shrinking, record job creation. TRUMP=ECONOMIC CRISIS WORSEND BY HIS COVID BUNGLING. Biden=Econ crisis managed, record job creation. TRUMP=ECONOMIC DISASTER. ‪Jobs slashed. Prices and taxes raised. [Tariffs put in place by the US are taxes—on the American people]. Next up, funnel more of Americans’ money to those who already have most of it. --Idiotic/Insane (like a Fox) Economics: 2025 Edition. Stop finding excuses: it’s obvious when an American doesn’t simply have an admiration or affinity for Vlad the Corruptor—but is acting as his subject, servant, vassal. It doesn’t take a genius to figure this out. The evidence is overwhelming and in nearly every posture, position, and policy pushed. A subservient/vassal US president would, of course, follow Russian orders to have the United States threaten its neighbors and position itself to break apart NATO (thereby giving cover for Russia attacking Ukraine and elsewhere and for China potentially attacking Taiwan), and take down the US’s juggernaut economy numerous notches, and shrink the global relationship-building power of the US’s international aid, and have the US start a global trade war.
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM