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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

I’ll fight for my country because I still believe in its ideals & despite everything, I want us to have a last chance to do better, to not leave it in the hands of the worst of us.

But just keeping a keen eye on the Gulf for a frolicking dolphin on a lazy Saturday morning does have its appeal

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

Think I’ll just sit back & read some books written by people a lot smarter than me for a while.

Living in a world that appears now to have lost its way, that has no inherent purpose other than to bear witness to the end, I chose not to have children.

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

And now here I sit, willingly engaging those same ferociously dumb fucks in the most asinine & time-sucking ways.

I only degrade myself.

No more reaching out to the “other side.” I’m done folding my contempt for them inside my cloak. I’ve had more productive conversations with my yard iguanas.

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

I literally sacrificed all my youthful high school fun, no drink, no drugs, so I could study & gtfo of Oklahoma to go a college where all the smart people were.

I fled the flocks of stupidity surrounding me. 1/

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

Proliferation of contagious diseases was also one of the Pentagon’s direst predictions.

One reason we moved to MX after Covid vax became available was to live at the beach & enjoy the simple pleasures of the natural world.

When I woke up this morning at first light, it was already 90 degrees. /

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

More nukes as countries try to protect ever more scarce resources, internal conflicts as the poor, hungry & desperate rise up & riot, water-wars between nations.

The DoD recommended the US build a “virtual fortress” to protect the country & keep immigrants out

Link to summary of the 2004 report:

Whether the weather: comments on ‘An abrupt climate change scenario and its implications for United States national security’

In February 2004, the Department of Defense released ‘An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security.’ Wri…

www.sciencedirect.com

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

In short, it warned that climate change could destabilize the global geopolitical environment and pose a threat to U.S. national security greater than terrorism.

Resource scarcity, mass war & climate-refugee migrations, meaner & more unpredictable weather 2/

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

The document, titled "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security," was prepared for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, suppressed for 4 yrs & finally leaked in 2004 while Bush W, a climate change denier, held office. 1/

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 2h

Never thought I’d be that person toting the sign, but end-stage capitalism is here. Greed, yes, but also Nature’s fury. I read a Pentagon report 20 yrs ago warning global warming would destabilize the entire world. Politicians & the rich ignored it, gorging themselves now at one last glorious feast

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 3h

Same, brother.

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 3h

Our friends here in MX came from Argentina & they said no one there wants pesos, only USD. It’s like a shadow currency. Their peso is so devalued it’s something like $900,000 pesos/month for an apartment which costs about $500 in USD.

jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 3h

In the pre-social media era (rocking chair creaks as I take a puff from my corn cob pipe) I used to just walk away from dumb people, thinking, “Goddamn, that person’s dumb.”

Now I must correct the entire universe of online dumbs. Why? How did this happen? What madness drives me? What hunger?

badwebsites @badwebsites.bsky.social · 4h

But... arguing with dumb people- that's all I do!

Chris Kubecka 🇵🇷🇨🇿🇳🇱🇺🇦🇷🇴 @secevangelism.bsky.social · 21d

One pretty good quote from the letter

"You can't do much for people who are dumb. People like to be dumb because it is easy, but make it hard for them. Argue with them."

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badwebsites @badwebsites.bsky.social · 4h

But... arguing with dumb people- that's all I do!

Chris Kubecka 🇵🇷🇨🇿🇳🇱🇺🇦🇷🇴 @secevangelism.bsky.social · 21d

One pretty good quote from the letter

"You can't do much for people who are dumb. People like to be dumb because it is easy, but make it hard for them. Argue with them."

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 3h

In the pre-social media era (rocking chair creaks as I take a puff from my corn cob pipe) I just used to walk away from dumb people & get once my day, thinking, “Goddamn, that person’s dumb.”

Now I must correct the entire universe of online dumbs. Why? How did this happen? What madness drives me?

jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 3h

My dude had major dental surgery & I basically have to turn all his food into mush before he can eat it. When in doubt, I just throw more butter in there. Can confirm there are too many “flavor-test bites” necessary in this process.

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 4h

Finding that shade, baby. 😄

Been in MX since 2021 & 💯 Mexicans are the hardest working people I’ve ever lived around. Everyone I know here has 2 or 3 jobs. They invented the side-hustle.

jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 11h

M grandma painted her porch ceiling that color to keep mud dobbers & wasps from building nests there. She said the color confused them & made them think it was the sky. No idea there was any truth to it, but she never had nests there.

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 14h

And doing especially well, the descendants of all the Nazis that Argentina took in & gave shelter to so they could start a new life after WWII.

Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 15h

To all the Americans losing their jobs and farmers losing their farms, take comfort in the fact that the people in Argentina are doing great.

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 14h

And doing especially well, the descendants of all the Nazis that Argentina took in & gave shelter to so they could start a new life after WWII.

jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 18h

“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." Thomas Jefferson

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

Mike Johnson is now calling #NoKings a "hate America rally"

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 18h

We were never getting out of this without a huge fight. I think that’s why Americans have been slow to take to the streets en masse. But they know now the time is finally here when we have to put our bodies on the line for our country.

No fear. These depots will fold like your granny’s lawn chairs

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 19h

He’s a worm. How can we tell which end is his face and which is his ass?

Ok. Slap both. Let the Lord sort it out.

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 19h

You know we’ve got them shaking in their boots when they call #NoKingsDay a Hate America rally. lol.

Good. They should be afraid of us. They’ve got a lot of explaining to do. The cunts.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

Mike Johnson is now calling #NoKings a "hate America rally"

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 20h

“GIVE ME THE PEACE PRIZE NOW OR I WILL RAIN DOWN HELL & DAMNATION UPON YOU & ALL YOUR COUNTRYMEN.”

From BBC News: “Following the announcement of the ceasefire deal in Gaza, Trump declared: "BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS." The White House called him "the peace president".”

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 20h

Following the announcement of the ceasefire deal in Gaza, Trump declared: "BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS." The White House called him "the peace president".

“GIVE ME THE PEACE PRIZE OR I WILL RAIN DOWN HELL & DAMNATION UPON YOU & ALL YOUR COUNTRYMEN.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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