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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 39m

Private prison companies are raking it in.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 1d

Being able to win every election for a long enough period of time is indistinguishable from authoritarianism, because the way that is normally accomplished is to dismantle and weaken democratic institutions.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 1d

thehill.com/homenews/hou...

thehill.com

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson, less than a year ago, gives Matt Gaetz effusive praise, trying to suppress the House Ethics Committee report on Gaetz's sexual misconduct and drug use.

That report was never released.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson is many things, but a moron isn't one of them. He knows about the cuts, he knows we know about the cuts.

It shows. I don't know if he flagellates himself with a bloody scourge every day or what, but it shows.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 2d

I feel called out. This is my wife and I trying to set the temperature in the car.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 2d

"Sleepy Joe" seems to get more competent every day in this narrative.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 2d

That's the framing. If it stands.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, yes, a nice sleepy Southern Town like Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers

ALT: a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers

media.tenor.com

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 2d

I think the established way to debunk this in the manosphere is to point out the "bird hands."

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 2d

They frequently say the National Guard is there to protect the Federal buildings. Not people, property.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

This administration is creating a lot of potential Joker origin stories.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

The human eye can process 14 orders of magnitude of brightness. But our brains don't conceptualize it that way.

I think similarly it's hard for us to comprehend the scale of corruption, which is why if Trump goes a couple of days without doing something impeachable, people just assume he's dead.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

What are they going to report on? There is no transparency from the regime.

I could hire an ex-Kremlinologist on Fiverr and get better info.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

This remake of "Rollerball" sucks.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

They may as well bring back that "clenched fist of truth" NRA video featuring Dana Loesch.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

Most of my followers are bots, just waiting for me to disclose my secret plan to infuse the most popular neck gaiters worn by ICE with powerful synthetic estrogens. They are all made in a small number of factories, you know.

They can try to stop me, but the joke's on them.

I did it months ago.

calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

Pen-link.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Tom Morello's response to learning Paul Ryan was a big fan is classic.

Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against'

Rage Against the Machine's guitarist blasts Romney's VP pick and unlikely Rage fan

www.rollingstone.com

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

We don't need Occam's razor for this one, when Occam's potato starch butter knife will do.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

It reminds me of this warning.

Pizza boxes that say, "Open box BEFORE eating pizza"

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

JUDAS

I don't want your blood money!

CAIAPHAS

Oh, that doesn't matter, our expenses are good

JUDAS

I don't need your blood money!

ANNAS

But you might as well take it. We think that you should

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

I am guessing 'Terminal Moraine' would be the fortified one.

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calvinkclark.bsky.social @calvinkclark.bsky.social · 3d

Meme image of man with butterfly asking, "is this Antifa?"