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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3h

So … big agribusiness wins again. Your guy in Iowa with 50 head of cattle who just lost all of his Latino dairy workers, not so much.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 5h

When the local cops make a drug bust, they lay out their finds on a table and Chief/Sheriff Whoever makes a press event out of it. When our government spends millions in ammo and airpower to blow up a boat 100s of miles from our shore, you’d think they’d at least have a brick or something to show.

feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, if MAGAs like voting for a criminal con man, they’re going to LOVE the return of unsavory banking practices run amok!!!

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, those tri-spoke wheels will really stand out in a market in which every damn car is doing the SUV wedge-shaped blob thing.

feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 23h

Amen. Nothing says Traditional American Christianity like a man embodies every last one of the 7 deadly sins, plus the bonus round of having fooled around on every one of his 3 wives.

feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 1d

At least Hunter admitted he had a problem and has been public about working his way toward recovery, with his family’s support. Jr. continues to mock him while thinking we don’t notice the grains in his nostrils, his physical appearance, and his garbled speech. And his family doesn’t seem to care.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! It’s sure great that all these donors have eliminated poverty, homelessness and healthcare needs in their home cities and states and can still scrape up enough to help build a tacky-ass Marriott ballroom/conference center next to one of our nation’s prized, historic symbols.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 1d

You should see the ones who can only afford the blonde hair dyes and straighteners and not the plastic surgery. Woof.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 1d

And when they try that crap in the workplace and young women laugh in their faces for talking like an old grandpa, they’ll cry even harder about how it is to get a date.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

My dad detested his German heritage—“miserable people”, he said. His eyes would gleam with pride when he told about his uncles grabbing Bund members off the street in the 1930s and beating the crap out of them. He fought the Japanese, and gladly did so partly due to their alliance with Germany.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

And to save his own ass from going to jail on corruption charges. It’s still very hard to believe that 100s of Hamas fighters could converge on the border and attack a large festival, and Israel’s vaunted intel could be totally “caught by surprise.”

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

Eeww.

feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

In the 70s, we registered ours at the local fire station. The fireman on duty would write it in a notebook. If we were “good”, he’d go upstairs and slide down the brass fire pole. This was usually after the local cop came to our school and said he’d pull over any kid without a bike plate.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

Let me guess—the actual Christians who’ve lived in that area for millennia won’t be invited. But the ones with the Evangelical megachurches and cheesy praise bands will be welcomed with open arms (as long as they pay the proper membership fees). Catholics will be admitted on a case-by-case basis.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

On top of that, the mere suggestion that we honor and celebrate Native peoples can still bring out the same racist rhetoric that put them on reservations and in boarding schools. Indigenous Peoples Day is a perfectly good replacement for Columbus Day, yet some people act like it’s civic sacrilege.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

It’s just odd that a holiday invented by late 19th-century politicians to cater to the Catholic immigrant community, honoring a guy who’s known for being so awful even the Church called him out on it, still garners a childlike sense of awe among certain groups in this country.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

While it’s great that the hostages were released, the idea that there’s suddenly going to be peace in the region and that all the death and destruction in Gaza will be forgiven is ridiculous. This is a land of long memories.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 3d

Does he even … talk? Do presentations? I’ve always been surprised they haven’t had him do more speeches at GOP events and such.

feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sure they’re made in the USA by all-American, certified heterosexual watchmakers who went into the trades instead of some pointy-headed intellectual college. Big, strong watchmakers with tears in their eyes because the Trumpube signature makes their work truly meaningful and important.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 4d

Wonder when conservative Catholics are going to waken to the harsh reality that the current administration’s definition of “Christian” doesn’t include them?

feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 4d

The old County Stadium had several barrel dudes on the exterior—Barrel Catcher, Barrel Pitcher, Barrel Outfielder… good times.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 4d

The Dutch don’t wear helmets because their culture is used to cyclists, and riders know what they’re doing. Also: national health insurance. Here in the US, motorists like to speed up when they see cyclists trying to cross. I wear a helmet because my country is full of jerks.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe they can be gently reminded that part of being an adult is having to do things to earn a living that aren’t particularly interesting or fulfilling. And that management jobs do take a lot of work. And that promotions aren’t always a foregone conclusion. That’s what work is like in your 20s.

feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 5d

Cool, cool. I set up my company-required annual exam (which takes $750 off my yearly premiums) 3 months ago, then my insurance company booted my doc off the network, I had to find a whole new doctor, and my checkup is now at the end of Nov. Lab tests will be an extra out-of-pocket charge.

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feistintheair.bsky.social @feistintheair.bsky.social · 5d

Another charmingly odd perspective from that time: Agnew was considered a boldly “ethnic” GOP choice because he was … Greek.