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David Poe

@culthero12.bsky.social

670 followers 830 following 770 posts

Consultant, cat-owner, cook. Feel like this one needs to be busted out for a while: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 1h

Why not both? The problem here is that he's clearly unfit but no one except a few dems will talk about it.

David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 16h

I will never be with them on anything hierarchical but I'm with them 100% on treatment of immigrants and the poor.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The entire social/political atmosphere is currently working overtime to activate & amplify reactionary instincts. If we want the mushy middle to swing against this we need to, to coin a phrase, "virtue signal" -- show, in public, that disgust is the right reaction.

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 1d

Crypto is pegged to the dollar via a financial asset called a "stablecoin." The intent is to help make Crypto respectable by preventing wild fluctuations in the price.

It also means that if the asset it's tied to starts getting shaky Crypto shakes even worse.

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1d

As the shutdown extends, the rhetorical utility of a 94-style Contract With America becomes significantly greater.

Democrats need something material they can point to and say, "These are the perfectly reasonable points Republicans are refusing to do their jobs for."

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani entering these spaces and making these sorts of arguments is exactly why money is desperate to stop him and why he is so needed. They do not want mass media audiences exposed to this sort of thinking.

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

War. The brand new Nobel Peace Prize winner has used their very first statement after winning to call for war.

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

They wrap themselves in the flag as they desecrate everything it stands for.

David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

You'd think leadership would consist of boldly envisioning how to leverage new technology and organizing employees to enact that vision.

Apparently it just consists of foisting the effort of figuring out how to replace labor onto labor.

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

It is just amazing the way they project this whole psychodrama roiling in their heads and splatter it all over this soulless AI canvas.

a cartoon character with the words what a time to be alive below him

ALT: a cartoon character with the words what a time to be alive below him

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

They want the theater. They need to see their leaders in motion. They want anger and emotion and energy coming out of Democrats on every platform they can reach. The Gerontocracy is biting us because all of these people are way past their prime and clinging to power unto the grave.

David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

This utter charlatan thinks he knows better than every expert he's ever come across. Oppositional Defiance Disorder as his whole personality.

David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

We used to have experts

David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

They also want to encourage the public to admire fascists.

David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

How has not paying troops worked out in the past for autocratic regimes?

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 2d

Troops turning to military relief groups for cash with next paycheck in doubt trib.al/TdDHiw1

Troops turning to military relief groups for cash with next paycheck in doubt

Service members have been working without pay since the government shutdown began on Oct. 1. They are increasingly asking for financial help.

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

Congress can stop all of this at any time.

David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 2d

Every day is a new entry in "imagine if it was Biden"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 3d

All I could think in the days after the election. "We could have had it all."

We can still get there. Just further along then it had to be.

David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker seems like the sanest option. He is describing the problem in very clear terms to the whole world!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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David Poe @culthero12.bsky.social · 3d

This, urgently

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